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QS World University Rankings 2021 released

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking 2021 has released. Only eight Indian institutes managed to feature in the top 500 of QS World University Ranking 2021. IIT Bombay has dropped 20 positions from last year’s world university ranking, IISc dropped by one position, and IIT- Delhi’s rank has slipped from the previous rank of 182.

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Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking 2021:

Ranks Universities Country
1st Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) USA
2nd Stanford University USA
3rd Harvard University USA
4th California Institute of Technology USA
5th University of Oxford United Kingdom
172nd Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay India
185th Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore India
193rd Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi India
275th Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras India
314th Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur India
350th Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur India
383rd Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee India
470th Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati India

 

Every year, higher education consultancy QS releases the World University Ranking. In the QS World University Rankings, the institutes are evaluated on six metrics. These include academic reputation (40 percent weightage), employer reputation (10 percent), faculty/student ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 percent), international faculty ratio/student ratio (5 percent each).

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