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QS World University Rankings 2022
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Quacquarelli Symonds global higher education think-tank and compilers of the world’s most-consulted university rankings portfolio released the QS World University Rankings 2022 which lists the world top higher educational institutions.

Key Facts
  • QS has ranked 1300 universities this year which is their largest pool till date.
  • In the total list, 35 Indian universities got ranked, with only 22 in the top 1000, 3 in the top 200, and none in the top 100.
  • The best university in the world, for a 10th consecutive year, is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which earns perfect scores across the research and the employability indicator.
  • It is followed by University of Oxford, United Kingdom and Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Quacquarelli Symonds Ranking

QS rankings for the universities are based on the following metrics:

  • Academic Reputation – 40%
  • Employer Reputation – 10%
  • Faculty/Student Ratio – 20%
  • Citations per faculty – 20%
  • International Faculty Ratio – 5%)
  • International Student Ratio – 5%
World University Rankings 2022 : Top 10 from India
  • Only 22 Indian higher institutions found a place amongst the top 1000 universities of the world.
  • But this number is relatively unchanged from the last few years there were 21 Indian varsities in the 2021 rankings, 23 in 2020, 24 in 2019 and 20 in 2018. 
  • Indian universities have improved their performance on academic reputation metric and research impact.
  • They continue to rank poorly in the teaching capacity metric no Indian university ranks among the top 250 universities for faculty-student ratio. 
  • The top 5 Indian universities as per the QS World University Rankings 2022
    • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) : Rank 117
    • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) : Rank 185
    • Indian Institute of Science (IISc) : Rank 186
    • Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) : Rank 255
    • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) : Rank 277

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