IIT Bombay breaks into top 150 in QS world ranking, eight years after IISC first made it

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Last Updated29/06/2023

Recently, IIT Bombay has made a remarkable leap, climbing 23 positions to secure the 149th rank globally in this year’s edition of the QS World rankings.
This marks the first time in eight years that an Indian higher education institution has made it to the top 150 list, with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore previously achieving this feat in 2016 with a ranking of 147.

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) a leading global career and education network for ambitious professionals looking to further their personal and professional development.
QS develops and successfully implements methods of comparative data collection and analysis used to highlight institutions’ strengths.
The ‘QS World University Rankings’ is an annual publication of university rankings which comprises the global overall and subject rankings.
Six parameters and their weightage for the evaluation
- Academic Reputation (40%)
- Employer Reputation (10%)
- Faculty/Student Ratio (20%)
- Citations per faculty (20%)
- International Faculty Ratio (5%)
- International Student Ratio (5%)

The fluctuation is mainly attributed to a revision of the assessment parameters this year.
It introduced three new indicators — sustainability, employment outcomes, and international research network, each carrying a weightage of 5 per cent.
To accommodate the three new indicators, QS made adjustments to the importance assigned to other parameters.
The weightage given to the academic reputation indicator and faculty student ratio has been lowered
The significance attributed to the employer reputation indicator has been increased from 10% to 15%.
The reduction in emphasis on the faculty-student ratio (FSR) has had a negative impact on institutions such as IISC which is primarily a research-focused institution with lower teaching load compared to the IITs.
- However, according to a QS this is not the only factor that led to IISc’s fall in rankings.

With 45 universities ranked this year, India is the seventh most represented country globally and the third in Asia trailing only Japan (52 universities) and China (Mainland) (71 universities).
Overall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US topped the World University Ranking for the twelfth consecutive time this year, followed closely by UK’s Cambridge University and Oxford University.
National University of Singapore (NUS) moved up three positions from Rank 11 last year to become the first Asian university to break into the top 10 club.