IIT Bombay tops first QS India Ranking, IISc grabs second spot among India's Higher Education Institutions

QS India Ranking: Interestingly, IITs have taken up six of the top-10 places.

Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Bombay has topped the list of India’s best institution in the QS World University Rankings. (PTI)

Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Bombay has topped the list of India’s best institution in the QS World University Rankings. While IIT Madras and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru have emerged as top 2 and top 3 respectively, in the first standalone QS ranking of India’s higher education institutes. Interestingly, IITs have taken up six of the top-10 places. While, twenty Indian institutions receive full marks in the Staff with PhD, the indicator designed to identify the extent to which institutions are cultivating a highly-qualified faculty body. In the research productivity indicator, nine institutions achieve a score between 98.4 and 100. IIT Bombay, Madras, Delhi, Kharagpur, Kanpur and the University of Delhi enjoy outstanding regard among the nearly 43,000 international employers surveyed, while IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and the IIS Bangalore were the most voted by 83,000+ international academics polled. On a metric-by-metric basis, other institutions also stand out such as the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, which achieves the highest score of the QS's indicator of research impact, adjusted for faculty size. It is followed by Shivaji University, Kolhapur; Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore achieves perfect score in the Faculty/Student indicator.

Check the list here of QS India University Rankings 2019: Top 15

RANK  1 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY RANK  2 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE RANK  3 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS RANK  4 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI RANK  5 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR RANK  6 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR RANK  7 UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD RANK  8 UNIVERSITY OF DELHI RANK  9 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE RANK  10 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI RANK  11 UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA RANK  12 JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY RANK  13 ANNA UNIVERSITY RANK  14 UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI RANK  15 BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY QS Quacquarelli Symonds has released their first standalone ranking of India's higher education institutions. QS is the global higher education think tank responsible for the world's most-consulted world university rankings. The inaugural edition of the QS India University Rankings, is designed to offer an independent analysis of the performance of Indian institutions. The rankings include Public Universities, Private Universities and H.E. Institutions or Deemed Universities. Single faculty specialist institutions or single level institutions (e.g. teaching principally at postgraduate level) are not included.