New Delhi, Nov 9: In a significant development, India surpassed China in the number of ranked universities, making it the "most represented higher education system" in the region with 148 featured universities - 37 more than last year. It is followed by Mainland China with 133 and Japan with 96.

 

 

 

 

Over half of the featured Indian universities declined in position on the year-over-year performance scale, 21 showed improvement, 15 remained unchanged and 37 were new entrants.

 

 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, retained its top position in India in the QS World University Rankings-Asia. Other Indian institutes besides IIT Bombay, which made it to the top 100 include IIT-Delhi (46), IIT-Madras (53), Indian Institute of Science (58), IIT-Kharagpur (59), IIT-Kanpur (63), and University of Delhi (94).

 

While India falls below the regional average in academic reputation and employer reputation, it has achieved the second-best regional results in the papers per faculty metric among the higher education systems with more than 10 universities ranked.

 

India is seen as working to balance domestic educational needs with efforts to enhance its appeal to international students, posing a challenge for the country's higher education system.

 

 

The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a UK-based company specialised in the analysis of higher education institutions around the world, ranked institutions based on 10 indicators, including academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, research output, and internationalisation efforts.

 

Overall, Peking University in China secured the top position in Asia, followed by the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and Tsinghua University. Besides, Myanmar, Cambodia and Nepal featured in the rankings for the first time.