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Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings


Why is it in the news?

  • Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the London-based higher education analytics firm has announced its rankings.

More about the news

  • Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is India’s top-ranked university in the QS World University Rankings.
  • IIM-Ahmedabad is among the top 25 globally for business and management studies.
  • IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Calcutta are among the top 50 globally for management studies.
  • Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences in Chennai is ranked 24th globally for dentistry studies.
  • India has shown significant progress in research capability, with a 20% improvement in Citations per Paper and a 16% growth in the International Research Network. However, there was a 5% decrease in the H Index, which measures research productivity and impact.
  • India is one of the world’s most rapidly expanding research centres, with a 54% increase in research output from 2017 to 2022.
  • India is the fourth-largest producer of research globally, trailing behind China, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
  • In the broader Asian regional context, India ranks second in the number of universities featured (69) after mainland China.
  • India ranks fourth in the total number of ranked entries (454) after China, Japan, and South Korea.
  • India ranks fifth regionally for the number of top 200 entries and sixth for the number of top 100 entries.

Challenges:

  • India faces challenges in enhancing research standards, increasing research impact, and securing citations in premier global journals.
  • Only 15% of India’s research was cited in top-tier journals between 2017 and 2021.

QS World University Rankings

·    QS World University Rankings are released annually by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

·      The rankings evaluate the performance and quality of universities worldwide.

·     The methodology considers indicators such as academic reputation, faculty-student ratio, employer reputation, sustainability, employment outcomes, international research network, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio, and international student ratio.

·   They provide rankings by subject, region, student city, business school, and sustainability.

 

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