QS World University Ranking 2023 Flashcards
what is QS?
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
a leading global career
and education network for ambitious professionals
looking to further their personal and professional
development.
‘QS World University Rankings’ is an?
annual publication
no. of parameters for judging and weightage for evaluation
there are 6 parameters in total
weightage of evaluation:
Academic Reputation (40%)
Employer Reputation (10%)
Faculty/Student Ratio (20%)
Citations per faculty (20%)
International Faculty Ratio (5%)
International Student Ratio (5%)
global top performer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US no.1 spot for the 11th
consecutive year.
The second place went to the University of Cambridge, followed by Stanford University
performance of indian institutions [top 3]
top 3 frm india
155: IISC Bangalore
172: IIT Bombay
174: IIT Delhi
one iisc and 8 iits under top 500 no other indian institutions
The total number
of Indian institutes
among the top 1,000
has risen to
27 from 22.
IISc Bengaluru
world’s top research university, achieving a perfect score of 100/100 for this metric.
the fastest rising
South Asian university among the QS World
University Rankings top-200.
other notable inferences;
Overall, Indian education institutes, 41 of which
made it to the rankings, have performed poorly
across many key metrics.
For instance, 30 out of 41 ranked universities
have suffered declines in the Faculty Student
Ratio (FSR) indicator, with only four recording
improvements.
Related initiatives:
NEP 2020- school and college level
Uchhatar Avishkar Yojana (UAY):
Impacting Research Innovation and Technology
(IMPRINT):It is a first-of-its-kind Pan-IIT and IISc joint initiative
to develop a new education policy and a roadmap
for research to solve major engineering and
technology challenges
Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme: It is a government’s scheme to provide the regulatory
architecture for setting up or upgrading of 20
Institutions (10 from public sector and 10 from the
private sector) as world-class teaching and research
institutions called ‘Institutions of Eminence’.
