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IIT Bombay’s Mathematics programme at 92nd place, JNU’s sociology at 68th place are some of the courses that featured in the QS World University Rankings 2023 by subject. Apart from these 10 entries from BITS Pilani and two from OP Jindal university also made it to top 100.
Led by its Institutes of Eminence (IoE), India has improved its position in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject, with 44 courses, in their respective subject categories, offered in the country’s higher educational institutes ranked among the global top 100.
The rankings, released on Wednesday, show that the 11 declared Institutes IoEs account for 44 per cent of the 355 programmes offered by Indian universities which made it to the overall rankings. In the previous round, there were 299 entries, including 35 among the top 100.
While the rankings cover 54 academic disciplines, the Indian universities perform well in the fields of Computer Science, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Business Studies, and Physics.
Among the IOEs, barring Delhi Universities, the other institutes saw more courses offered by them gaining places compared to ones that slipped. However, in the case of DU, of the 27 programmes featured in the QS list, seven improved ranks, while 12 declined.
For the second consecutive year, the dentistry programme offered by the Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences posted the best performance among Indian institutes obtaining the 13th rank globally. Last year, it was ranked 18th.
“It is the only Indian university to achieve a perfect score (100/100) in both Citations per Paper and H Index. The next two highest ranked universities in these tables are the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) placed 21st in Petroleum Engineering (up 9 places) and the Indian School of Mines (ISM) University, Dhanbad, placed 25th (up one place) in Engineering – Mineral and Mining,” the QS said in a statement.
The QS noted that, globally, India, which saw its research output grow by 54% between 2017 and 2022, produces the world’s fourth most research (1.3 million academic papers between 2017 and 2022), behind world leader China (4.5 million), the United States (4.4 million) and the United Kingdom (1.4 million).
But in citation count, India lags far behind. “From 2017 to 2021, India saw 15% of its publications cited in top journals. Meanwhile, its closest competitors in terms of research output volume, the United Kingdom and Germany boast top journal citation percentages more than double that, 38% and 33% respectively,” the QS pointed out.
The highlights of the 2023 rankings include the entry of IIT Bombay’s Mathematics programme in the global top 100 categories, getting the 92nd spot. IIT Delhi’s Electrical engineering programme broke into the top 50 categories globally, placed 49th, while the same programme offered by IIT Kanpur has been placed 87th, featuring in the top 100 categories for the first time.
“Jawaharlal Nehru University breaks into the world’s top 100 in Sociology, taking 68th place, showing a rise of 33 places. The University of Delhi also joins the world’s top echelon in Sociology, in rank 91,” added the QS.
The organisation’s Research Director Ben Sowter said among countries having over 10 universities featured in the rankings, “India is the second-most improved in Asia with its overall performance improving by 17.2% year on year, after Mainland China which improved by 21.9%.”
