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News: The QS World University Rankings: Asia 2027 show increased Indian university representation despite declining rankings of leading institutions.
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%.
- Overall representation: India became Asia’s second most represented higher education system, with 325 institutions, compared to 294 last year.
- Asia’s Performance
