QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2022

About

• QS World University Rankings is published annually by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British company specialising in the analysis of higher education institutions around the world.
  
  
• Top 5 universities in World
  
  

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
   
   
2. University of Oxford, UK
   
   
3. Stanford University, USA
   
   
4. Cambridge University, UK
   
   
5. Harvard University, USA 
   
   

Indian scenario

• No Indian institute secured a position among the top 100 universities of the world.
  
  
• Overall, there are 22 Indian institutions in the top 1,000 list compared to 21 last year.
  
  
• IIT Bombay maintained its position as the top Indian institution for the fourth consecutive year, although it fell five places in the global rankings to the joint 177th position.
  
  
• IIT Delhi (185th rank) overtook the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (186th rank), giving India three institutions in the world’s top 200.
  
  
• IISc was also declared the world’s top research university by the indicator of most citations per faculty member, when adjusted for faculty size.
  
  
• Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham are no longer among the top 1,000, having dropped from the 801-1,000 band to 1,001-1,200.