3 old IITs make it to the top 50 in the QS World Rankings 2021 by subject

IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur made it to the top 50 in the QS World Rankings 2021 by subject. Performance of 253 programs offered at 52 higher education institutes in India was evaluated in which 12 made it to the top 100 in the QS World Rankings by subject 2021. The rankings released on 4 March 2021, offer independent data on the performance of institutes all over the world across 51 subjects.

What methodology is used to rank universities in the QS World Rankings by subject?

The QS World Rankings by Subject ranks the world’s top universities in individual subject areas, covering 51 disciplines, grouped into 5 broad subject areas. In 2021 the four components that were used to rank universities were as follows:

Academic reputation
Employer reputation
Research citations per paper
H-index

The aim of the rankings is to help prospective students identify the world’s leading schools in their chosen field of interest in response to high demand for subject-level comparisons. For more details regarding these components visit this link

Subject areas of 2021 rankings

The 5 broad subject areas in the QS World Rankings 2021 by the subject were:

Arts & Humanities
Engineering & Technology
Life Sciences & Medicine
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences & Management

IIT Bombay, Delhi and Madras secures a place in top-100 tally

In 2021 QS World Rankings by subject, IIT Bombay ranked 49 worldwide with an overall score of 79.9 in the Engineering & Technology subject area closely followed by IIT Delhi that ranked 54 with an overall score of 79.4, IIT Madras ranked 94 with an overall score of 75.9, and IIT Kharagpur ranked 101 with an overall score of 75.5.

Subject area	Institute Name	Rank	Overall score
Engineering-Petroleum	IIT Madras	30	70
Engineering-Mineral & Mining	IIT Bombay IIT Kharagpur	41 44	64.6 64
Material Sciences	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc)	78	69.7
Chemistry	IISc Bangalore IIT Bombay	93 105	73.7 72.4

In Engineering-Electrical & Electronics, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur ranked in the top 100 worldwide securing 54, 61, 82, and 92 ranks respectively.

In Computer Science and Information Systems, IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi ranked among the top 70 institutes in the world securing 67 and 70 ranks respectively.

In Engineering-Mechanical, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras ranked amongst the top 100 worldwide securing 79, 82, and 92 ranks respectively.

JNU and DU also feature in the rankings

In the Social Sciences and Management subject area, the University of Delhi ranked 208 with an overall score of 68.7. In Anthropology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New-Delhi ranked in the top 100 worldwide. In the Life Sciences and Medicine subject area, All India Institute of Medical Sciences ranked 248 with an overall score of 66.2. In Arts and Humanities subject area, JNU and DU ranked 159 and 252 respectively with overall scores of 70.6 and 65.4 respectively.

In Business & Management Studies subject, IIM Bangalore and IIM Ahmedabad ranked amongst the top 100 worldwide securing 76 and 80 ranks respectively.

In the Natural Sciences subject area, IISc Bangalore ranked 92 worldwide with an overall score of 77.9.

Ben Sowter, senior vice-president of Professional Services at QS commented on the ranking of Indian institutions in the QS World Rankings by subject 2021 saying that one of the biggest challenges faced by India is educational-providing high-quality tertiary education in the face of exploding demand: this much was recognized by last year’s NEP, which set the ambitious target of a 50 percent gross enrolment ratio by 2035. It should therefore be small cause for concern that the number of Indian programs featuring across our 51 subject rankings has actually decreased over the last year from 235 to 233."

If seen from a global perspective, two American institutions dominated the rankings and emerged as the strongest performing institutions by ranking top slot in 12 subjects: Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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