IISc Bangalore Grabs the 5th Rank in QS University Rankings: BRICS

IISc is a public University that that nabbed the 5th rank in the QS BRICS world University rankings.

By Surabhi Katyal

July 9, 2015

The QS University Rankings, 2015, has placed Bangalore’s IISc at the 5th position among the best universities in BRICS nations.

The QS University Rankings for BRICS was launched to track the quality of education in the five developing countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, who have recently invested a lot in education. The BRICS represent 40 percent of the world population.

The university rankings, 2015, came out recently and our very own Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has been ranked 5th for undergraduate studies.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Source: Wikipedia

It has the best ranking out of all Indian universities, beating IIT Delhi (rank 13), IIT Bombay (rank 16), IIT Madras (rank 20) and IIT Kharagpur (rank 24). What is astonishing is that while all the mentioned IITs are veterans of the ranking system, IISc Bangalore is a new entrant in top 50 of the QS BRICS world universities rankings.

The ranking is done on the basis of eight indicators:

Academic Reputation
Employer Reputation
Faculty/Student Ratio
Staff with a Ph.D
Papers per Faculty
Citations per paper
International Faculty
International Students.

IISc has the largest number of papers published per faculty member and it ranked eighth in number of faculty members with Ph.D criterion, while doing quite well in all other indicators.

India has a total of nine universities in the top 50 of this list. See the entire list here.

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