QS World University Rankings 2022

Context: QS World University Rankings were published earlier today and a handful of Indian universities have made it to the top 1,000. The rankings list saw JNU, IIT Bhubaneshwar, Pondicherry University as well as IISc, Bangalore in the list. 

Key Findings of QS World University Rankings 2022 related to India

• Only three educational institutes from India, the IIT Bombay (177), IIT Delhi (185) and IISc Bengaluru (186) feature in the top 200 list.
• Except for these three institutes, no other Indian institution has been able to break into the top 200 since 2017.
• IIT-Bombay continues to be India’s best higher education institution for the fourth consecutive year. Holding 177th position, although it fell five places over the last year
• There are a total number of 22 Indian higher education institutions placed among the world’s top 1,000 universities.
• In the 2021 index, there were 21 Indian institutions. This is followed by 23 in 2020, 24 in 2019 and 20 in 2018.
• IISc Bengaluru remains the world’s top research university, maintaining a perfect score of 100/100 for this metric.
• Poor performance in the faculty-student ratio: Indian universities have improved their performance on academic reputation metric and research impact, but continue to struggle on the teaching capacity metric.
• No Indian university ranks among the top 250 for faculty-student ratio.

Other Key Findings of QS World University Rankings 2022

• The top three institutions globally are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Oxford and Stanford University
• Singapore’s National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, and China’s Tsinghua University and Peking University, are the only Asian universities in the global top 20.

About QS World University Rankings
QS World University Rankings is released by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
Purpose: It is an annual publication of university rankings which comprises the global overall and subject rankings.
Parameters: The universities are evaluated based on the following six metrics:

• Academic Reputation (40%)
• Employer Reputation (10%)
• Faculty/Student Ratio (20%)
• Citations per faculty (20%)
• International Faculty Ratio (5%)
• International Student Ratio (5%)