The rankings, by British higher education analysts QS, feature the 500 top universities in the world, based on a QS survey.
NEW DELHI: The QS World University Rankings report released on Wednesday night has brought good news for the Indian academia. At 162, IIT Bombay has moved up 17 places since last year’s rankings.Last year’s top-ranked Indian institute – IIT Delhi, remained at the same position of 172nd.
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is at second after IIT Bombay, at ranking 170. IIT Delhi which led the list of Indian universities has been displaced by IIT Bombay and IISc, Bangalore in the 2019 QS rankings.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, and University of Oxford are the top five on the list.
The universities are ranked on parameters such as academic reputation, employer reputation, citation per faculty, faculty student ratio, international faculty and international students.
The rise is also responsible for India’s overall citations-per-faculty ratio rising from 46.90 in 2018 to 50.74 in 2019.
The latest edition of the rankings has 9 Indian universities featured in the top 500 and 24 in the top 1,000. In the 2018 rankings 20 Indian unviersities featured.
Amrita University, Amity University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Thapar University, Vellore Institute of Technology are the five new entrants.
