IIT Bombay, IISc, JNU, AIIMS, JGU Law School top institutions: QS WUR by Subjects 2022

IIT Delhi has featured among the top 100 educational institutes in the world for four of its academic programmes

QS World University Rankings by Subjects 2022 is out, overall majority of Indian universities have slipped from their previous year’s ranking, but the number of Indian institutions getting ranked remains the same.

This year again Jawaharlal Nehru University has been ranked as the best in India in the Arts and Humanities category, IIT Bombay is leading the engineering list, AIIMS Delhi is the best in Life Sciences & Medicine, while Jindal Global Law School is the best law school from India.

This year the number of Indian institutions figuring in the top 100 list has gone down as in the year 2021, 12 Indian institutions made it to the top 100 list, that included Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, Anna University, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi, OP Jindal Global University, Delhi University, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore and IIM Ahmedabad.

Engineering & Technology

IITs have dominated the Engineering & Technology category this year also with eight out of 11 institutions ranked being IITs. IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi have been ranked among the top 100 in this category. While IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Science getting ranked among the 200 globally. IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati, Vellore Institute of Technology and the University of Delhi are other institutions ranked among the top 500 globally.

The majority of the institutions have slipped from their previous year’s rank. In 2021, as many as 12 engineering institutions were ranked in India with three among the top 100 globally. IIT Bombay was ranked 49th followed by IIT Delhi and IIT Madras at 54th and 94th respectively. This year IIT Bombay is at 65, and IIT Delhi at 72.

On the other hand, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been ranked as the best in the world followed by the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.

Four IIT Delhi Programmes in Top 100

IIT Delhi has featured among the top 100 educational institutes in the world for four of its academic programmes under the Engineering and Technology category, which is the Institute’s strongest field, as per the 12th edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022 announced on Wednesday.

The four academic programmes that are in the top 100 rank globally are Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Civil Engineering.

The Institute’s Electrical Engineering programme achieved 56th rank (overall score 77.5), Mechanical Engineering 64th (overall score 76.6), Computer Science 65th (overall score 71.0) and Civil Engineering was ranked in the 51-100 bracket (overall score 74.0).

The Institute has also been ranked among India’s top three domestically for Electrical & Electronic (1st rank), Statistics & Operations Research (1st), Computer Science & Information Systems (1st), Civil & Structural (1st), Mechanical (2nd), Mathematics (2nd), Social Sciences & Management (2nd), Material Science (3rd), Chemistry (3rd), Biological Sciences (3rd) and Sociology (3rd).

Speaking of the QS Rankings by Subject 2022, Prof. P.V. Rao, Dean, Planning & Head, Ranking Cell, IIT Delhi said, “IIT Delhi has been consistently performing very well in core Engineering Specialisations securing top 100 ranks globally. This year we have witnessed a substantial improvement in most of the specialisations like Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, etc. with improved scores of H-index and citations. IIT Delhi has also improved globally in other specialisations such as Mathematics, Social Sciences & Management, etc.”

A total of 51 specific subjects were ranked in 2022 by the QS under five broad subject areas in 1,543 institutions from across the globe.

The Institute has been currently ranked 72 globally in the subject area of Engineering & Technology in QS WUR by Subject 2022 with a score of 78.9 and 2 domestically in this category.

Natural Sciences 

In the Natural Sciences category, 10 institutions from India have been ranked this year with IISc Bangalore as the best from India has been ranked 103, followed by IIT Bombay at 142 and IIT Madras at 176. The other institutions are IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, Delhi University, TIFR Pune and IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee.

In the Natural sciences category, it is again Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) adjudged as the best globally, while Harvard University and the University of Cambridge are second and third in the world. 

Arts and Humanities

In the Arts and Humanities category once again five universities have been ranked in India this year as well, with Jawaharlal Nehru University ranked among the top 200 at 188, followed by the University of Delhi at 227. Last year also five universities from India were ranked in this category which included names like Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Jadavpur University and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Law

In law, the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of OP Jindal Global University (JGU) is the best law school in India. It has improved its previous year’s rank and has been ranked 70th this year, it was ranked 76 in 2021 out of all law schools globally. It is the only law school in India to be ranked. Harvard University (law school) was number one in this category.

In the Life Sciences & Medicine category, three institutions have been ranked from India are All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the University of Delhi which were also present last year, while this year Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh has been replaced by Manipal Academy of Higher Education.

While, Harvard University, the University of Oxford and Johns Hopkins University have been ranked as the top three institutions in the world.

Ranking Methodology

The QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks the world’s top universities in individual subject areas, covering 51 subjects. The rankings aim to help prospective students identify the world’s leading schools in their chosen field in response to the high demand for subject-level comparisons.

Each of the subject rankings is compiled using four sources, which are Academic reputation, Employer reputation, Research citations per paper and H-index. The first two of these are QS’s global surveys of academics and employers, which are used to assess institutions’ international reputations in each subject. The second two indicators assess research impact, based on research citations per paper and h-index in the relevant subject.

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