IISc-Bengaluru gains 31 places in QS rankings, fastest-rising in S Asia

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- Manash Gohain

New Delhi: Having gained 31 places in this year’s QS World University Rakings, IIScBengaluru is now the fastest-rising South Asian university, inching closer to the global Top 150. It has also held its position as the world’s top research university, ahead of (in the descending order of rank in research) Harvard, Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This year, three others — IITs in Guwahati (37th) and Roorkee (47th) and new entrant University of Madras (48th) — also made it to the elite list of global Top 50 research institutions.

With 12 of the 41 Indian universities improving their positions in the latest QS rankings, IISc (155) raced ahead of IIT-Bombay (172), which was last year’s India leader at 177.