QS World University Rankings 2023

The QS World University Rankings were released this week.

This is a global ranking system for universities. This year, over 5500 institutions have been assessed. Over 1400 universities made it to the final ranking.

Criteria

The criteria used for this ranking include:

1. Academic reputation 

2. Employer reputation

3. Faculty/student ratio 

4. Citations per faculty (Research excellence)

5. International student ratio & International faculty ratio 

The Top 10 Universities in the World – 2023

The top 10 universities are:

  1. MIT
  2. University of Cambridge
  3. Stanford University
  4. University of Oxford
  5. Harvard University
  6. California Institute of Technology
  7. Imperial College, London
  8. UCL London
  9. ETH, Zurich
  10. University of Chicago

Asian Presence in the List

The top 10 universities from Asia are:

  1. NUS, Singapore (11)
  2. Peking University (12)
  3. Tsinghua University, China (14)
  4. NTU, Singapore (19)
  5. University of Hong Kong (21)
  6. University of Tokyo (23)
  7. Seoul National University (29)
  8. Fudan University, China (34)
  9. Kyoto University (36)
  10. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (38)

Top Indian Universities

41 Indian institutions made it to the list.

  1. Indian Institute of Science (155)
  2. IIT Bombay (172)
  3. IIT Delhi (174)
  4. IIT Madras (250)
  5. IIT Kanpur (264)
  6. IIT Kharagpur (270)
  7. IIT Roorkee (369)
  8. IIT Guwahati (384)
  9. IIT Indore (396)
  10. University of Delhi (521-530)

The first private university to make an appearance is OP Jindal University (17th in India, 651-700 globally)