QS Rankings 2024: No Indian College In Top 100

Per the QS University Rankings 2024, IIT Bombay found a spot in the top 150 but no Indian university made it to the top 100. Despite this year’s revised parameters, MIT retained its top position.

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QS Rankings 2024: No Indian College In Top 100

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released its annual QS World University Rankings 2024 list and no Indian institute made it to the top 100 on the list. IIT Bombay, ranked at 149th position, is the first in the country. It’s followed by IIT Delhi, ranked at 197.

QS Rankings is an annual ranking list of the world’s best universities, considered to be one of the most widely-read university rankings in the world. The first edition came out in 2004. This is the 20th edition of the QS World University Rankings. The current edition features 1,500 institutions across 104 locations and takes into account three new metrics - Sustainability, Employment Outcomes, and International Research Network.

For the twelfth time in a row, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ranked at the top position. It was followed by the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, in that order.

Read ahead to find the top institutions in the world and India, as per the QS Rankings 2024.

QS Rankings 2024: Top 10 Institutes In The World

As per the QS Rankings 2024, these are the top 10 institutes in the world:

University	Location	Rank in 2024	Rank in 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	1	1
University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2	2
University of Oxford	United Kingdom	3	4
Harvard University	United States	4	5
Stanford University	United States	5	3
Imperial College London	United Kingdom	6	6
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	7	9
National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	8	11
UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	9	8
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	10	27

This year, for the first time, a university from Asia made it to the top 10 - the National University of Singapore. It ranked at the 11th spot last year.

QS Rankings 2024: Top Indian Institutes

Here’s a look at the top-ranked universities in India, as per the QS Rankings 2024, and their comparison to last year’s rankings:

University	Rank in 2024	Rank in 2023
IIT Bombay	149	172
IIT Delhi	197	174
IISc Bengaluru	225	155
IIT Kharagpur	271	270
IIT Kanpur	278	264
IIT Madras	285	250
IIT Guwahati	364	384
IIT Roorkee	369	369
Delhi University	407	521-530
Anna University	427	551-560

Among this year’s top three ranked universities, only IIT Bombay improved from last year. Both IISc Bengaluru and IIT Delhi slipped in rankings, along with IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Madras from the top 10.

Changing Parameters Defeat India’s Best

The addition of three new parameters this year led to a change in the weightage awarded to each parameter. Consequently, the rankings for many universities changed, including Indian universities.

Reports suggest that Indian universities, especially, slipped in ranks due to the addition of the indicator - International student ratio. Per the QS Rankings 2024, India scores lower than countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam on this indicator.

Here’s a look at the change in the parameters and their weightage between 2023 and 2024:

Indicator	2024 Edition Weights	Change from previous editions
Academic Reputation	30%	10% deducted
Employer Reputation	15%	5% added
Faculty Student Ratio	10%	10% deducted
Citations per Faculty	20%	No change
International Faculty Ratio	5%	No change
International Student Ratio	5%	No change
International Research Network	5%	New
Employment Outcomes	5%	New
Sustainability	5%	New

QS Rankings By Subject

The QS university rankings are also divided by subjects such as arts and humanities, engineering and technology, business and management studies, etc. The QS rankings 2024 by subject have not yet been released.

However, per the QS rankings 2023 by subject, the following were the top Indian universities and the top universities in the world across different streams:

Stream	Top World University	Top Indian University
Engineering & Technology	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Arts & Humanities	Harvard University, United States	Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
Business	Harvard University, Cambridge, United States	Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad