Wednesday, February 26, 2014

QS World University Rankings 2014 lists IIT courses in Global Top 50

According to the QS World University Rankings (by Subject) 2014, four Indian Universities rank in the global top 50 institutes in at-least one of the 30 disciplines included under the ranking.
Acquiring the highest position in India, IIT Delhi grabbed the 42nd rank in electrical engineering, while IIT Bombay bagged the 49th and 50th position in electrical and civil engineering respectively. IIT Madras ranked 49th in civil engineering.
IIT - B is the only institute to have made it to the top 200 institutes in any of the five arts and humanities disciplines, besides being ranked in the 151-200 grouping for linguistics.
Besides the premier IITs, non-IITs too made its presence felt with the Indian Institute of Science(IISc) being ranked 46th in materials science. Suprisingly, no course from any Indian institute made it to the list of arts, humanities and social sciences.
At the global level, Harvard emerged as the best all-round institution, thus, ranking first in 11 of the 30 disciplines and defeating its local rival MIT.

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