The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore is the best ranked Indian institution both by THE and QS.
Times Higher Education and QS released their highly anticipated rankings during the past weeks. Indian universities are gradually appearing in the list, but their rank does not reflect their high selectivity.
No Indian university ranks in the top 300 of the Times Higher Education World Rankings. This is why we will focus here on the Asia ranking, published on June 1, 2022, which makes it possible to show the respective places of each establishment more precisely and which includes 616 universities located in 31 countries.
In contrast, 71 Indian universities feature in the Asia rankings, which include 616 universities located in 31 countries. Among these 71 institutions, four have reached the top 100. IISc Bangalore ranks 42nd, Mysore-based JSS Academy ranks 65th, IIT Ropar ranks 68th and IIT Indore ranks 87th.
However, some of the top engineering schools, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur did not appear in the rankings which they declined to participate in, citing data discrepancies and lack of transparency.
QS ranking: 41 Indian universities including 3 in the top 200
41 Indian institutions appear among the 1422 universities ranked worldwide by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a company specializing in the analysis of higher education based in London. The 2023 ranking was published on Thursday June 9 2022.
However, apart from the three “big ones”, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, no other Indian university has earned a place among the top 200.
Why don't Indian universities rank higher?
It is indeed surprising that some institutions, such as the IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology), the best Indian engineering schools whose selection rates are around 2%, do not achieve better scores. Their graduates are courted both by the best universities in the world and by large companies, particularly in the field of technology, in India as in Silicon Valley and elsewhere abroad.
The main disadvantages of Indian institutions reside in the weak internationalization of the student and teaching bodies, the insufficient teaching/student ratios and the number of publications in research journals, and undoubtedly (for QS which uses this criterion) in academic reputation.
These allow us to better understand the current strategy of the Indian government through the framework law on education and higher education, the famous “NEP 2020” (National Education Policy). The text, which new provisions are adopted month after month, strongly encourages Indian universities to conclude new international partnerships, in the form of exchange programs and double degres, to improve their performance in the rankings.
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