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:
- MIT
- University of Cambridge
- Stanford University
- University of Oxford
- Harvard University
- California Institute of Technology
- Imperial College, London
- UCL London
- ETH, Zurich
- University of Chicago
Asian Presence in the List
The top 10 universities from Asia are:
- NUS, Singapore (11)
- Peking University (12)
- Tsinghua University, China (14)
- NTU, Singapore (19)
- University of Hong Kong (21)
- University of Tokyo (23)
- Seoul National University (29)
- Fudan University, China (34)
- Kyoto University (36)
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong (38)
Top Indian Universities
41 Indian institutions made it to the list.
- Indian Institute of Science (155)
- IIT Bombay (172)
- IIT Delhi (174)
- IIT Madras (250)
- IIT Kanpur (264)
- IIT Kharagpur (270)
- IIT Roorkee (369)
- IIT Guwahati (384)
- IIT Indore (396)
- University of Delhi (521-530)
The first private university to make an appearance is OP Jindal University (17th in India, 651-700 globally)