The IIT Bhubaneswar has been ranked at 20th position among the First Top Universities of India listed in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) India University Rankings 2020, making an improvement from its earlier rank 21 st in 2019.
This is the second time QS has published separate ranking for top institutions in India.
The British higher education analysts QS has ranked the higher education institutions in India on the basis of eight parameters which have different weightage.
The eight parameters with their weightage are academic reputation (30 per cent), employer reputation (20 per cent ), faculty student ratio (20 per cent), staff with PhD (10 per cent), Papers per faculty (10 per cent), citation per paper (5 per cent), international faculty (2.5 per cent ) and international students (2.5 per cent).
“The vision of IIT Bhubaneswar is to be globally well respected for producing outstanding graduates and generating new knowledge. In order to fulfil this dream, we aim to figure among the top 50-100 best Institutions in the world, as soon as possible.
We are happy about the ranking performance of the institute. However, a lot more needs to be done in the years to come,” said institute Director Prof RV Raja Kumar.
The Institute has been constantly increasing its rankings in various international and national agency rankings. As per Times Higher Education (THE) World University rankings 2020, the institute has been ranked 601-800 among 1,396 institutes across the world and 10th in India among 56 institutes, where it has been ranked 7th in citation scores in India.
The Three University Mission Rankings (Russia) has ranked the Institute in 701-800. Also as per The Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings, the institution has been ranked 151-200 in world and 10th in India. The Institute has been ranked 17th by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)-MHRD, 9th rank by Times Engineering Institute Rankings 2019, 9th rank by India Today.