Our Indian universities are leading in QS Rankings with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Delhi University, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
The subject-wise list includes IIT Delhi and Bombay which fell in the bracket of 51-100 under the civil and structural engineering while IIT Kharagpur and Madras found a place in the 100-150 bracket for the same subject. IISc Bangalore and IIT Bombay found its place in the 50-100 bracket for chemical engineering subject, while IIT Delhi, Kharagpur and Kanpur were ranked under the 100-150 for the same subject.
Moreover, Delhi University was ranked 37 under the Development Studies subject and JNU was ranked under the bracket of 51-100 for History and Sociology.
This time also universities in the US have topped the list in the rankings for the highest number of first ranks.
QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symond an academic ranking agency which released this year’s ranking on Wednesday. On the Indian Universities making it to the QS ranking, Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar tweeted, “Our efforts to improve quality of education in higher education institutions are bearing fruit as 20 Indian institutions figure in the global top 100 Institutions in the subject wise categories as per QS.”
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