IIT Bombay Emerges As India's Top University In Global Rankings

BANGALORE: Looking at the latest QS world university rankings, Indian education can certainly be proud about as for the very first time IIT Bombay has emerged as India’s leading university. Having said that the institution has also put behind IIT Delhi to take over the first position, reports Kounteya Sinha of TNN.

As the Indian universities are engaging with the rankings more than ever before, the IIT-B has overtaken its counterpart IIT-Delhi, which has been the leader in India throughout the first 10 editions of the QS rankings. But however the bad news is that not a single Indian university features in the top 200 rankings. Just like last year's rankings, the top-placed Indian institution IIT-B is positioned at 222^nd rank, while IIT Delhi has slipped one rank to 235th this year.

The success behind IIT-B's is surely due to its improvements in its reputation among both academics and employers. In fact it is now in the top 60 in the world in the QS international survey of employers and its position of 160th in the academic survey represents a rise of 23 places. But when it comes to research citations, proportions of international students and faculty, the institution needs to make a lot of progress, if it wants to break into the leading positions in the ranking.

The other institutions that improved on their ranking include the University of Calcutta which jumped 50 ranks since last year's ranking and is placed 650th in the world while the University of Delhi has jumped 20 ranks to 430th.

Meanwhile the IIT Kanpur is ranked 300th globally followed by IIT Madras (321), IIT Kharagpur (324), IIT Roorkie (461) and IIT Guwahati (551), respectively.

Along with these developments the number of Indian institutions in the ranking also grew from 11 to 12, with Banaras Hindu University joining the group below 700th place. But the overall standing of the remaining institutions is similar to last year.
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