Of the 41 Indian universities, 12 have improved their position in the latest global rankings, with IISc (155) overtaking IIT-Bombay (172), which was India’s leader last year at 177.
However, Indian institutions continue to struggle in the internationalization metrics of QS and rank 30 universities in the Faculty / Student Ratio indicator as well as some of the top universities like Delhi University (from 501-510 to 521-530), University of Hyderabad (from 501-510 to 521-530). suffered a decline. 651-700 to 751-800), JNU (from 561-570 to 601-650), Jamilia Millia Islamia (from 751-800 to 801-1,000), IIT-Bhubaneswar (from 701-750 to 801-1,000) and Jadavpur Universities (from 651-700 to 701-750), among others, have seen their global ranking decline.
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) on Thursday released the 19th edition of the University Rankings. Globally, the top five – MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, Oxford and Harvard (in order) – remained unchanged from last year except for the swap position. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved a record-expanding ranking as the world number one for the 11th year in a row. The University of Cambridge has moved up to second place, while Stanford University remains in third place.
The Story of India India is led by government-run institutions with the Institution of Eminence (IoE) tag as five of the top 10 in the list. While IIT-Bombay has moved up five places, IIT-Delhi (India’s third) has moved up 11 places. In the public IoE, five secured higher ranks than in the previous edition, but Delhi University and Hyderabad University were left behind.
Among other highlights, the University of Calcutta (801–1,000) has the highest percentage of female students (63%), followed by the University of Mumbai (1,001–1,200) with 57%. Amity University (1,001–1,200) employs the highest percentage (58%) of female faculty, followed by Mumbai University at 56%. The Indian Institute of Technology-Indore is the highest ranked debutant in this edition, being ranked 396th globally.
The good news for India ends here as Indian universities remain stable in the Academic Reputation (AR) metric of QS, with 17 experienced declines in AR rank. In QS’s Employer Reputation Metric, IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi are the only two national universities to feature in the world’s top 100, ranked 59th and 72nd respectively.
In addition, India clashes in the internationalization metrics of QS with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (1,001–1,200), the best performing local institution to international faculty ratio, ranked 411th globally, and Amity The university is the national leader for the (1,001–1,200) ratio. of international students, ranked 542nd globally.
However, Nunzio Quacquarelli, founder of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), in an exclusive conversation with TOI, said that Indian institutions can progress faster if they focus on “international outreach with a global higher education system”.
“National Policy on Education (NEP) 2020 calls for more active internationalization of education. But this is really only the beginning to ponder. Indian universities have the lowest international student ratio and international faculty ratio of any major OECD country. And then also employer reputation, although employment in India has great results, employer relations are very domestic oriented. They have not developed the curriculum or digital capability to appeal to truly international employers that provide international 21st century skills with dimensions. The campaign for internationalization is something that will change things very quickly, but it hasn’t happened yet. Because India has such a strong foundation in research and talent, I think all of these things can be improved relatively quickly as the government is providing funding and the national education policy is giving the drive for change,” said Quacquarelli. Told.
With some of the top universities declining in rankings, Quacquarelli said that except IITs, government-run universities are traditionally home-focused and “need to put more effort into outreach and reputation-building. The NEP is calling for a change in that and I am sure that from my interactions with the Vice Chancellors, there is a genuine desire to engage more internationally going forward. ,
This year’s QS World University Rankings is the biggest ever, with 1,418 institutions across 100 places, up from last year’s 1,300. The results accounted for the distribution and exposure of 16.4 million academic papers published between 2016 and 2020 and the 117.8 million citations received by those papers; They are also responsible for the expert opinion of more than 151,000 academic faculties and over 99,000 employers.
China (Mainland) now boasts two universities in the world’s top-15, thanks to Peking University (12th) and Tsinghua University (14th), achieving their highest rank since the table was inception. The National University of Singapore, on the other hand, is the top performing Asian university, occupying the 11th position for the fifth year in a row. At the same time, its compatriot Nanyang Technological University (19th) dropped out of the top-15 for the first time since 2015.
China (Mainland) is the most represented Asian higher education system in this version of the ranking, and third globally. Only the United Kingdom (90) and the US (201) have more universities than China. Singapore and China (Mainland) are the only two Asian education systems with two universities in the top-20. Japan is the second most represented Asian higher education system with 50 universities, while India and South Korea are the joint third system, with 41 universities.
Finally, the Swiss ETH Zurich (9th) remains the leading university in continental Europe.