Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have dominated the top slots in the first standalone QS ranking of India’s higher education institutes. While IIT-Bombay has secured the top position, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru stands second. The IITs in Madras, Delhi, Kharagpur and Kanpur have bagged third, fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.
The ranking by the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), a UK based company specialising in education, include public universities, private universities and higher education institutions or deemed universities.
Twenty Indian institutions receive full marks –100/100 – in the staff with PhD, the indicator designed to identify the extent to which institutions are cultivating a highly-qualified faculty body. In the research productivity indicator, paper per faculty nine institutions achieve a score between 98.4 and 100.
Top 50 universities of QS India University Rankings 2019
1) IIT-Bombay
2) IISc
3) IIT-Madras
4) IIT-Delhi
5) IIT-Kharagpur
6) IIT-Kanpur
7) University of Hyderabad
8) University of Delhi
9) IIT-Roorkee
10) IIT-Guwahati
11) University of Calcutta
12) Jadavpur University
13) Anna University
14) University of Mumbai
15) Banaras Hindu University
16) IIT-Hyderabad
17) Birla Institute of Technology and Science
18) IIT Indore
19) Savitribai Phule Pune Univesity
20) Alagappa University, Karaikudi
21) IIT-Ropar
22) IIT-BHUBANESWAR
23) Symbiosis International (Deemed University)
24) Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai
25) IIIT – Allahabad
26) Manipal Academy of Higher Education
27) NIT, Rourkela
28) Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
29) NIT TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
30) Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore
31) Thapar University
32) GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar
33) AMU, Aligarh
34) Osmania University, Hyderabad
34) IIT-Patna
36) Tezpur University
37) Bangalore University
38) Sri Venkateswara University
39) University of Calicut
40) Amrita University
41) Amity University
42) ISM University, Dhanbad
43) Mangalore University
44) Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
45) Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (Sagar University),
46) Andhra University
47) University of Kerala
48) IIIT-Delhi
49) Panjab University
50) University of Mysore