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June 19, 2019

QS World University Rankings 2020 Announced

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LONDON, June 18, 2019 — The sixteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings was released today by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the world’s best university for the eighth consecutive year.

QS says it ranked 1000 universities from 82 different locations, surveyed 94,000 academics and 44,000 hiring managers and analyzed 11.8 million research papers and 100 million citations. QS measures universities on academic standing, employed graduates, student/staff ratio, research impact, and international outlook.

• Key Facts

• The University of Cambridge hits its lowest-ever position (7th). The UK records its third-worst performance ever, but the University of Oxford rises to 4th;
• International student ratios at UK and US universities have consistently fallen;
• ETH Zurich (6th), the Continental European top university, achieves its highest position ever, overtaking the University of Cambridge;
• Asia’s top two universities are the National University of Singapore and its compatriot Nanyang Technological University (both joint-11th);
• 24 of Australia’s 35 universities rise;
• China now has 19 of the world’s top 200 research universities; it had 12 in 2016;
• Of the 302 universities from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, 216 have recorded worse Faculty/Student Ratio performance, QS’s measure of institutional teaching capacity;
• Latin America’s top university is the Universidad de Buenos Aires (74th) for the fifth consecutive year. Brazilian and Argentinian universities are losing employer confidence in their graduates;
• The Middle East has two top-200 universities for the first time. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdul Aziz University (186th) is the new regional leader.

QS World University Rankings 2020: Global Top-30

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States
2. Stanford University — United States
3. Harvard University — United States
4. University of Oxford — United Kingdom
5. California Institute of Technology — United States
6. ETH Zurich — Switzerland
7. University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
8. University College London — United Kingdom
9. Imperial College London — United Kingdom
10. University of Chicago — United States
11. Nanyang Technological University — Singapore
12. National University of Singapore — Singapore
13. Princeton University — United States
14. Cornell University — United States
15. University of Pennsylvania —United States
16. Tsinghua University — China
17. Yale University — United States
18. Columbia University — United States
19. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne — Switzerland
20. University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom
21. University of Michigan — United States
22. Peking University — China
23. The University of Tokyo — Japan
24. Johns Hopkins University — United States
25. Duke University — United States
26. The University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
27. The University of Manchester —United Kingdom
28. University of California, Berkeley — United States
29. The Australian National University — Australia
30. University of Toronto — Canada

INSTITUTIONS FROM INDIA

QS RANK — UNIVERSITY

1. 152 — Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
2. 182 — Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
3. 184 — Indian Institute of Science
4. =271 — Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
5. =281 — Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)
6. =291 — Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)
7. =383 — Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)
8. =474 — University of Delhi
9. =491 — Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)
10. 651-700 — Jadavpur University
11. 701-750 — Manipal Academy of Higher Education
12. 751-800 — Anna University
13. 751-800 — Jamia Millia Islamia
14. 751-800 — O.P. Jindal Global University
15. 801-1000 — Aligarh Muslim University
16. 801-1000 — Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University)
17. 801-1000 — Banaras Hindu University
18. 801-1000 — Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
19. 801-1000 — Savitribai Phule Pune University
20. 801-1000 — Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
21. 801-1000 — University of Calcutta
22. 801-1000 — University of Mumbai
23. 801-1000 — Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)

India has 23 universities in the just-announced QS World University Rankings. IIT Bombay (152), IIT Delhi (182), and IISc Bangalore (184) are in the Global Top 200.

The Vice-Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar and the Dean of Jindal School of Banking & Finance, Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Bharadwaj met with India’s Minister of Human Resource Development, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’.

Vice-Chancellor Professor C. Raj Kumar presented the minister with the QS Certificate of Achievement awarded to JGU for being ranked between 751-800 globally. JGU is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.

Dr. ‘Nishank’ congratulated JGU for breaking into QS World University Rankings 2020 for the first time.

QS evaluates the universities according to the following six metrics:

• Academic Reputation (40%)
• Employer Reputation (10%)
• Faculty/Student Ratio (20%)
• Citations per Faculty (20%)
• International Faculty Ratio (5%)
• International Student Ratio (5%)

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