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QS World University Rankings 2021

Posted on March 5, 2021 by admin1  589

In News: 12 leading Indian universities & higher education institutions have managed to get into the top 100 colleges list released by QS World University Ranking (QSWUR).

Key Highlights

  • IIT Madras ranked 30th in Petroleum Engineering while IIT Bombay got the 41st rank and IIT Kharagpur 44th for Minerals and Mining Engineering.
  •  IISc Bangalore remains at 78th rank for Materials Science and 93rd for Chemistry.
  • These are the highest ranks achieved by the public Institutes of Eminence across this year’s Subject Rankings
  • In the life sciences and medicine category, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) bagged the 248th spot.
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been ranked 159th for arts and humanities, followed by the University of Delhi (252).
  • Also, Delhi University bagged the 208th spot worldwide in the social sciences and management category.

About QS World University Rankings

  • Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) is the world’s leading provider of services, analytics, and insight to the global higher education sector, whose mission is to enable people anywhere in the world to fulfil their potential through educational achievement, international mobility, and career development.  
  • The QS World University Rankings portfolio, inaugurated in 2004, has grown to become the world’s most popular source of comparative data about university performance.
  • It is an annual publication of university rankings which comprises the global overall and subject rankings (which name the world’s top universities for the study of 48 different subjects and five composite faculty areas), alongside our independent regional tables (such as Asia, Latin America, Emerging Europe and Central Asia and the Arab Region).
  • The QS rankings offer independent data on the performance of 253 programmes at 52 Indian higher education institutions, across 51 academic disciplines.
  • Parameters used: The performance of universities is measured on various parameters such as academic reputation, employer reputation, citation per faculty, faculty-student ratio, international faculty and international students.

About the Institution of Eminence (IoE) scheme

  • Institutions of Eminence scheme has been launched to empower the Higher Educational Institutions and to help them become world-class teaching and research institutions.
  • Ten public and ten private institutions are to be identified to emerge as world-class Teaching and Research Institutions.
  • This will enhance affordable access to high-quality education for ordinary Indians.

Objectives of the scheme-

  • To develop the capacity of the students and researchers to compete in the global tertiary education marketplace through the acquisition and creation of advanced knowledge in those areas.
  • To pay special attention to teaching and research in unique and emerging areas of knowledge, including interdisciplinary areas, which are regarded as important for strategic needs of the country but are not being pursued by conventional or existing institutions so far, and award degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions.

Source :IE

 
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