QS World Ranking by Subject
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QS World Ranking by Subject
Subject: Reports and indices
Context: The number of Indian universities/ institutes in the top 100 subject rankings has increased from eight to 12 this year.
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Findings of the report w.r.t India:
- 25 subjects mostly in engineering (17) offered by higher education institutions in India rank among the top 100 in the world in their respective subject categories (last edition it was 26 subjects).
- The O P Jindal Global University is the only private university to have entered the top-100 club with its law programme ranked 76th
- IIT-Madras’s Petroleum Engineering programme registered the best performance among Indian institutes — 30th in the world.
- IIT-Guwahati (for petroleum engineering), Jawaharlal Nehru University (anthropology), Anna University (petroleum engineering), and O P Jindal Global University (law) were 4 new entrants in top-100.
- IIT-Bombay has got more top 100 positions (total 7) than any other Indian institution.
About the report
- It is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
- Earlier it was known as the Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings
- In partnership with Elsevier, the QS system now comprises the global overall and subject rankings
- QS World University Rankings by subject calculate performance based on four parameters
- Academic reputation
- Employer reputation
- Research impact (citations per paper)
- The productivity of an institution’s research faculty.