The QS World University Rankings 2023 by subject included programmes from IIT Bombay’s Mathematics, which came in at number 92, and JNU’s sociology, at number 68. In addition to this, ten submissions from BITS Pilani and two from OP Jindal University also made the top 100.
The rankings, which were published on Wednesday, show that the 11 declared Institutes of Excellence account for 44% of the 355 programmes provided by Indian universities that reached the overall rankings. There were 299 entries in the previous round, with 35 ranking in the top 100.
Academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, H-index, and global research network were the five factors utilised to rank universities. The productivity and effect of a scientist’s or scholar’s published work are both gauged by the h-index. According to the QS, responses came from more than 1,30,000 academics across the globe.
While the rankings encompass 54 academic subjects, Indian universities excel in computer science, chemistry, biological sciences, business studies, and physics.
IIT Bombay has risen to 92nd place in the world’s top 100 in mathematics, an increase of 25 places.
IIT Delhi is ranked 49th position in the world’s top 100 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
IIT Kanpur is ranked in the top 100 in the world in engineering-electrical electronics (87th, up 21 places) and computer science information systems (96th, up by 13 places)
IIT Kharagpur has risen 15 positions to 94th in computer science and information systems.
IIT Madras has risen 50 positions to 98th place in mathematics.
The University of Delhi is also ranked 91st in the world in Sociology, according to the QS. According to the organisation’s Research Director Ben Sowter, “India is the second-most improved in Asia, with its overall performance improving by 17.2% year on year, after China, which improved by 21.9%,” among nations with more than ten universities covered in the rankings.
According to the QS, India produces the world’s fourth most academic research (1.3 million academic articles between 2017 and 2022), trailing China with 4.5 million, the United States with 4.4 million, and the United Kingdom with 1.4 million.
Nonetheless, India trails far behind in terms of citations. “From 2017 to 2021, 15% of India’s papers were cited in top journals.” At the same time, its closest competitors in terms of research production volume, the United Kingdom and Germany, have top journal citation percentages that are more than double that, at 38% and 33%, respectively,” according to the QS.
Dentistry at Saveetha Institute of Medicine and Technological Sciences for Dental is India’s top-ranked programme, per QS (ranked 13th globally, up five places compared to last year). In terms of engineering-mineral & mining, Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, is ranked 25th (up one spot), whereas Petroleum Engineering at IIT-Madras is ranked 21st internationally (up nine ranks).
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