All Irish universities went down in the rankings apart from NUI Galway which rose to 249 place. IIT Kharagpur has been ranked at 313 against 286 a year ago. It employs six performance indicators – academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty student ratio, and proportions of worldwide students and global faculty – to assess a university’s strengths in research, teaching, employability and internationalisation.
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The ranking for Indian institutions fell primarily because of the drop in both academic and employer reputation. The University of Technology Sydney and the University of Wollongong made the biggest improvements, moving up to 193 and 218 respectively. Barring IIT-Madras, all the others dropped places.
The top ranked Asian universities were the National University of Singapore (12th), Nanyang Technological University (13th) and Tsinghua University (24th).
QS also ranked institutions according to their best performance and reputation by subject.
Cambridge University has fallen out of the global top three for the first time in the latest university rankings released.
According to Quacquarelli Symonds, the poorer performance of Greek universities in the area of research is due in significant part to their limited finances and inability to attract new researchers from overseas.
The Swiss federal technology institute placed 8th in the 2016/17 rankings, released on Tuesday, one place higher than a year ago, making it the only university inside the top ten that isn’t in the U.S. or UK.
Having said that the Asian universities were rising on the scale, it is important to mention that Pakistani universities were ranked in the same ranking brackets as previous year mostly.
QS attributes such progress to high levels of national investment and dedicated programs.
This year, after the year 2004/05, top three universities belong to the US.
“Institutions in countries providing high levels of targeted funding, whether from endowments or the public purse, rise”, said Ben Sowter, Head of Research QS, in a media statement today.
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He said that Western European nations which are proposing cuts to public research spending are losing ground globally, while Russian Federation, the US, South Korea and Japan made notable improvements in the list.
