Context: According to the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, Twenty Five Programmes offered by higher education institutions in India rank among the top 100 in the world in their respective subject categories. Last year, this number stood at 26.

Details:

• The number of Indian universities/ institutes in the top 100 subject rankings has increased from eight to 12 this year.
• IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Bangalore, IIM-Lucknow and IIM-Kozhikode have more or less maintained their positions in the Business and Management Studies category.
• The O P Jindal Global University is the only private university to have entered the top-100 club. Its law programme is now ranked 76th globally.
• 17 of the 25 globally ranked Indian programmes are in engineering.
• IIT-Madras’s Petroleum Engineering programme registered the best performance among Indian institutes — 30th in the world.
• The four new universities/ institutes in the top 100 subject rankings are: IIT-Guwahati (for petroleum engineering), Jawaharlal Nehru University (anthropology), Anna University (petroleum engineering), and O P Jindal Global University (law).
• While the public Institutions of Eminence (IoE) such as the IITs are better-represented in the QS World University Rankings, the private ones have made a mark in the Subject Rankings edition.

QS World University Rankings:

• QS World University Rankings by subject calculate performance based on four parameters — academic reputation, employer reputation, research impact (citations per paper) and the productivity of an institution’s research faculty.
• QS ranking is viewed as one of the three most-widely read university rankings in the world, along with Academic Ranking of World Universities and Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

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