About QS World University Rankings: Asia 2027

About QS World University Rankings: Asia 2027

• It is a regional ranking that compares the performance of universities across Asia.
• Published by: The rankings are published by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), an international higher education analytics firm.
• Establishment: QS first published university rankings in 2004 in collaboration with Times Higher Education (THE)magazine.
• Objective: To provide an independent comparative assessment of universities and help students evaluate their performance, teaching quality, research opportunities and global partnerships.
• Methodology
  • Multiple factors: QS evaluates universities using different indicators to assess their overall performance.
  • Lenses: These represent broad areas of assessment, such as research and employability.
  • Indicators: These measure specific areas of university performance, such as academic reputation and student-to-faculty ratio.
  • Metrics: These involve detailed calculations used to compare universities under different indicators.
  • Weightage: QS assigns different weightages to these areas to calculate the final scores and rankings of universities.
• Key Highlights of QS World University Rankings: Asia 2027
  • Asia’s Performance
    • Top-ranked university: The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) retained the first position, followed by Peking University (China) and Tsinghua University (China), which secured second and third positions, respectively.
    • Hong Kong’s performance: Hong Kong secured five universities in the top 10, showing its strong presence among Asia’s leading institutions.
  • India’s Performance
    • Overall representation: India became Asia’s second most represented higher education system, with 325 institutions, compared to 294 last year.
      • It also recorded 34 new entrants.
    • Highest-ranked institution: IIT Delhi remained India’s highest-ranked institution at 66th position, down from 59th last year.
    • Performance of Leading Institutions: All six of India’s highest-ranked institutions slipped.
      • IISc Bengaluru (India) fell from 64th to 79th,
      • IIT Bombay (India) from 71st to 83rd,
      • IIT Madras (India) from 70th to 85th,
      • IIT Kharagpur (India) from 77th to 90th and
      • IIT Kanpur (India) from 77th to 99th.
      • Delhi University (India) dropped from 95th to 106th.
    • Improved Rankings: Chandigarh University (India), Lovely Professional University (India) and Jamia Millia Islamia (India) improved their positions.
    • Research Output: India had 27 universities among Asia’s top 50 for Papers per Faculty.
      • These included five universities in the top 10 and two in the top five, the highest representation by any higher education system in Asia.
    • Doctoral Qualifications: Fifteen Indian universities shared first place in Asia for the proportion of academic staff holding PhD qualifications.
    • Growth in Representation: Since 2016, India’s ranked institutions increased from 24 to 325, representing growth of over 1,250%.