QS World University Rankings 2024

QS World University Rankings 2024

News: Recently, The UK-based ranking agency, QS Quacquarelli Symonds declared its Asia ranking for the year 2024, QS World University Rankings: Asia 2024.

About QS University rankings:
• The QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). It is one of the most widely read and referred university rankings in the world.
• The QS World University Rankings are based on the following eight key indicators – i) Academic Reputation ii) Employer Reputation iii) Faculty Student Ratio iv) International Research Work v) Citations per Paper vi) Papers per faculty vii) Staff with PhD viii) International Faculty, International students and outbound exchange students.

Key Findings:
• Institutes ranked in the top three in India are IIT Bombay (40th), IIT Delhi (46th) and IIT Madras (53rd) which have consistently maintained their Asia rank from last year.
• IIT Kharagpur which was ranked 61 in 2023 has jumped to 59. And IIT Kanpur has jumped from rank 66 in last year to 63 in 2024.
• The two non-IIT institutions from India in top 100 Asia ranks are Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Delhi University.
• India is now the most represented higher education system in QS World University Rankings in Asia with 148 featured universities.
• India has achieved its best average score for the staff with PhD’ indicator (42.3 vs 22), signaling a strong research output and a highly qualified faculty body. This is only lower than Hong Kong SAR (57.6) and Taiwan.
• India falls below the regional average in academic reputation (11.8 vs 19) and employer reputation (9.6 vs 18).
• Seven Indian universities feature among the top 10 in the region for the papers per faculty indicator.

Global
• The top three universities in the QS World University Rankings 2024 are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford. The rankings provide a comparative tool for prospective students, educators, and employers to evaluate universities on a global scale.