3 Indian Universities Top in 200 QS World University Rankings

Three Indian Universities named Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Delhi and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru have been ranked in the top 200 of the QS World University Rankings 2022.

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As many as 22 Indian universities featured in the top 1,000 WUR, in comparison to 21 in QS WUR 2021, 23 in 2020, 24 in 2019, and 20 in 2018.

Out of these, four made it to the top-1,000 club for the first time. These were Jawaharlal Nehru University (561-570), Pondicherry University (801-1,000), IIT Bhubaneswar (701-750) and Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (801-1,000).

Five institutions – IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati and Savitribai Phule Pune University – have achieved their best positions in five years in the latest rankings.

Meanwhile, Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham dropped from the top 1,000 and now rank between 1,001 and 1,200.

IIT Bombay, at rank 177, continued to be India’s best higher education institution for the fourth consecutive year and IISc remained the world’s top research university, maintaining a perfect score of 100 in the research metric.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) remained the top university for the 10th consecutive year.

The University of Oxford rose to the second rank for the first time since 2006, while Stanford University and the University of Cambridge shared the third spot.