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- The UK-based ranking agency, QS Quacquarelli Symonds declared its Asia ranking for the year 2024, QS World University Rankings: Asia 2024.
About Quacquarelli Symonds(QS): QS World University Ranking
- The QS is a UK-based company specialized in the analysis of higher education institutions around the world, ranked institutions on the basis of 10 indicators:
- Academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, international relation network, citations per paper, paper per faculty, staff with PhD, international faculty, international students, and outbound exchange students.
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Indian Universities on the Rise: Achievements and Challenges in QS Asia Rankings 2024
- Ranking of Indian Institutes: Institutes ranked in the top three in India are IIT Bombay (40th), IIT Delhi (46th) and IIT Madras (53rd) which have consistently maintained their Asia rank from last year.
- IIT Kharagpur which was ranked 61 in 2023 has jumped to 59. And IIT Kanpur has jumped from rank 66 in last year to 63 in 2024.
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- The two non-IIT institutions from India in top 100 Asia ranks are Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Delhi University.
- Global rankings: India has surpassed China in the number of ranked universities.
- India is now the most represented higher education system in QS World University Rankings: Asia With 148 featured universities.
- Academic reputation: India falls below the regional average in academic reputation (11.8 vs 19) and employer reputation (9.6 vs 18).
- Papers per faculty metric: Seven Indian universities feature among the top 10 in the region for the papers per faculty indicator.
- It achieved the second-best regional results in the papers per faculty metric (36.0 vs 14.8) among the higher education systems with more than 10 universities ranked.
- PhD indicator: India has achieved its best average score for the staff with PhD’ indicator (42.3 vs 22), signaling a strong research output and a highly qualified faculty body.
- This is only lower than Hong Kong SAR (57.6) and Taiwan.
- Reducing the time frame of reference: India is closing this growth gap. For example, from 2020 to 2022, China’s research output grew by 31 per cent while India’s grew by 29 per cent – a 7 per cent reduction in growth difference.
- It suggests that India is catching up with its regional competitor.
News Source: Indian Express
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November 9, 2023