Best Indian Universities To Study: 23 Top Indian Universities by QS World University Rankings

MIT retains the top spot for the 8^th year
IIT, Mumbai improves ranking by 27 spots and retains spot as India’s top university
5 out of 23 Indian universities included in the list are privately funded

Want to study in India? Choose from the best Indian universities and the list is prepared based on the QS World University Ranking.

Not all educational institutions are equal. According to the QS World University Rankings for 2020, 23 Indian institutions are ranked amongst the top 1000 in the world.

Globally, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has again been named the number 1 university. This is the 8^th consecutive year that the MIT has claimed this spot.

Best Indian Universities — Indian Institute of Technology. Image courtesy Vikramjit Kakati from Pixabay

The QS World University Rankings

The QS World University Rankings is an annual list of the top universities around the world. It is the only international ranking system that has received approval from the International Ranking Expert Group (IREG).

In order to create this list, universities are ranked according to six metrics. This includes:

Academic Reputation
Employer Reputation
Faculty/Student Ratio
Citations per faculty
International Faculty Ratio
International Student Ratio

The QS World University Rankings – Top 10 Universities In the World

Rank	University	Website
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	www.mit.edu
3	Harvard University	www.harvard.edu
4	University of Oxford	www.ox.ac.uk
5	California Institute of Technology(CalTech)	www.caltech.edu
6	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	www.ethz.ch
7	University of Cambridge	www.cam.ac.uk
8	UCL	www.ucl.ac.uk
9	Imperial College London	www.imperial.ac.uk
10	University of Chicago	www.uchicago.in

5 out of the top 10 spots on the list were taken by higher educational institutions in the USA. 4 universities from the UK also made the list along with one university from Switzerland.

It is interesting to note that all 5 educational institutions from the USA on this list are privately funded while those from the UK and Switzerland are publically funded.

The QS World University Rankings – Indian Universities in the top 1000

Rank	University	Website
152	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	www.iitb.ac.in
182	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	www.iitd.ac.in
184	Indian Institute of Science	www.iisc.ac.in
271	Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai	www.iitm.ac.in
281	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	www.iitkgp.ac.in
291	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur	www.iitk.ac.in
383	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	www.iitr.ac.in
474	University of Delhi	du.ac.in
651-700	Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati	www.iitg.ac.in
701-750	Jadavpur University	www.jaduniv.edu.in
751-800	Manipal Academy of Higher Education	www.manipal.edu/mu.html
	Anna University	www.annauniv.edu
	Jamia Millia Islamia	www.jmi.ac.in
801-1000	O.P. Jindal Global University	www.jgu.edu.in
	Aligarh Muslim University	www.amu.ac.in
	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	www.amrita.edu
	Banaras Hindu University	www.bhu.ac.in
	Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani	www.bits-pilani.ac.in
	Savitribai Phule Pune University	www.unipune.ac.in
	Thapar University of Engineering and Technology	www.thapar.edu
	University of Calcutta	www.caluniv.ac.in
	University of Mumbai	www.mu.ac.in
	Vellore Institute of Technology	www.vit.ac.in

IIT Mumbai raked the best university in India. This is the second consecutive year that the university has claimed this rank. The university was ranked 162^nd worldwide in 2018, 179^th in 2019 and this year was ranked at the 152^nd spot.

Two other Indian institutes also came into the top 200 universities worldwide. IIT Delhi stood at the 182^nd spot while the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru was ranked 184^th.

Most of the Indian institutes that came into the top 1000 universities are government-funded institutions. However, 5 are privately funded.

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