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June 10, 2020

QS announces World University Rankings 2021

Photo: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Image Credit: Mahesh.

LONDON, June 9, 2020 — QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, have just released the seventeenth edition of the QS World University Rankings. QS World University Rankings are the world’s most-consulted, most-covered source of comparative information about university performance.

The rankings have placed 26 Asian universities among the global top 100 — the highest number ever.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology is named the world’s best university for a record-breaking ninth consecutive year;
• The top three institutions remain American: Stanford University (2nd) and Harvard University (3rd) follow MIT;
• Britain’s top institution is the University of Oxford, which falls to fifth. Its compatriot competitor, the University of Cambridge, remains 7th;
• One hundred twelve of America’s 153 ranked universities fall, with only 34 recording improvements. It is primarily due to collective relative decline in QS’s measures of academic standing and research impact;
• Continental Europe’s best university is ETH Zurich (6th no-change);
• Asia’s top university is the National University of Singapore (11th);
• China’s Tsinghua University reaches a new all-time high (15th);
• Latin America’s leader is the Universidad de Buenos Aires (66th, up by eight places). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (100th) becomes the first Mexican university ever to achieve a top-100 place;
• Universities in Russia and Malaysia continue to rise: Lomonosov Moscow State University (74th) and Universiti Malaya (59th) reach record highs.

Ben Sowter, QS Director of Research, said: “The American higher education hegemony continues to diminish in the face of increasing competitiveness across the world: competitiveness driven by strategic funding, internationalization efforts, and strong links between education and industry.”

QS bases its World University Rankings on Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Citations per Faculty, Faculty/Student Ratio, International Faculty Ratio, and International Student Ratio.

• QS World University Rankings 2021: Global Top 50

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — United States
2. Stanford University — United States
3. Harvard University — United States
4. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) — United States
5. University of Oxford — United Kingdom
6. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology — Switzerland
7. University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
8. Imperial College London — United Kingdom
9. University of Chicago — United States
10. UCL — United Kingdom
11. National University of Singapore (NUS) — Singapore
12. Princeton University — United States
13. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) — Singapore
14. EPFL — Switzerland
15. Tsinghua University — China (Mainland)
16. University of Pennsylvania — United States
17. Yale University — United States
18. Cornell University — United States
19. Columbia University — United States
20. The University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom
21. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — United States
22. The University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong SAR
23. Peking University — China (Mainland)
24. The University of Tokyo — Japan
25. Johns Hopkins University — United States
26. University of Toronto — Canada
27. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — Hong Kong SAR
28. The University of Manchester — United Kingdom
29. Northwestern University — United States
30. The University of California, Berkeley (UCB) — United States
31. The Australian National University — Australia
32. King’s College London — United Kingdom
33. McGill University — Canada
34. Fudan University — China (Mainland)
35. New York University (NYU) — United States
36. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — United States
37. Seoul National University — South Korea
38. Kyoto University — Japan
39. KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology — South Korea
40. The University of Sydney — Australia
41. The University of Melbourne — Australia
42. Duke University — United States
43. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) — Hong Kong SAR
44. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) — Australia
45. University of British Columbia — Canada
46. The University of Queensland — Australia
47. Shanghai Jiao Tong University — China (Mainland)
48. City University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong SAR
49. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) — United Kingdom
50. Technical University of Munich — Germany

• QS World University Rankings 2021: INDIA

QS Rank — Institute

• 172 — Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
• 185 — Indian Institute of Science
• 193 — Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
• =275 — Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
• =314 — Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)
• =350 — Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)
• =383 — Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)
• =470 — Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)
• 501-510 — UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
• 601-650 — Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
• 651-700 — JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
• 651-700 — O.P. Jindal Global University
• 651-700 — Savitribai Phule Pune University
• 651-700 — UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
• 751-800 — JAMIA MILIA ISLAMIA
• 751-800 — Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka
• 801-1000 — ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY
• 801-1000 — Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
• 801-1000 — ANNA UNIVERSITY
• 801-1000 — BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
• 801-1000 — UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

Overall, 21 Indian higher education universities and institutes have found a place in the world’s top 1,000 rankings.

• QS World University Rankings 2021: PAKISTAN

QS Rank — Institute

• 355 — National University of Sciences And Technology (NUST)
• =373 — Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS)
• =454 — Quaid-i-Azam University
• 651-700 — Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
• 801-1000 — PUNJAB UNIVERSITY
• 801-1000 — University of Engineering & Technology (UET)
• 801-1000 — COMSATS UNIVERSITY

• QS World University Rankings 2021: BANGLADESH

QS Rank — Institute

• 801-1000 — Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• 801-1000 — UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA

Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds

|GlobalGiants.Com|

Happy to announce that 21 Indian universities made it to the top 1,000 universities in QS World University Rankings 2020. @iitbombay, @iiscbangalore & @iitdelhi claimed spots in the world's top 200 universities!
Congratulations to all institutions
You make us all proud👍

— Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (@DrRPNishank) June 10, 2020

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