QS World University Rankings

Why is it in news?
  • The QS World University Rankings 2021, was recently published.
Findings:
  • The Indian Institute of Science broke into the top 100 in the natural sciences category.
  • With regard to subject rankings, there are two new entrants in the top 100 list: JNU’s  and O.P. Jindal Global University.
  • In the broad engineering and technology category, only three institutions made it to the top 100 — the Bombay, Delhi and Madras IITs.
  • The Kharagpur and Kanpur IITs dropped out of the top 100.
  • The top-ranked Indian programme globally is the IIT Madras petroleum engineering programme which dropped one place to the 30th rank.
QS World University Rankings
  • The rankings by subject calculate performance based on four parameters- academic reputation, employer reputation, research impact (citations per paper) and the productivity of an institution’s research faculty.
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 5th Mar 2021
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