About QS World University Rankings: Asia 2025:
- It has been published annually since 2009 by Quacquarelli Symonds, which highlights the top universities in Asia each year.
- The methodology used to create the ranking is similar to that used for the QS World University Rankings, but with some additional indicators and adapted weightings.
- The 11 indicators used to compile the QS Asia University Rankings are
- academic reputation (30%), Employer reputation (20%), Faculty/student ratio (10%), International research network (10%), Citations per paper (10%) and papers per faculty (5%), Staff with a PhD (5%), Proportion of inbound exchange students (2.5%) and proportion of outbound exchange students (2.5%)
- Highlights
- This ranking assesses 984 institutions covering 25 countries in Eastern, Southern, South-Eastern and Central Asia.
- Peking University retains the top spot, The University of Hong Kong the second, with the National University of Singapore confirmed in third.
- India boasts two institutions within the top 50 and seven in the top 100 of the QS Asia Rankings 2025, with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) leading at 44th place.
- The University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) achieved the most significant improvement among Indian institutions, climbing 70 spots to 148th.
Q1:What is All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)?
It is the statutory body and the national-level council for technical education in the country. It was set up in 1945 as an advisory body and later, in 1987, given statutory status by an Act of Parliament.
News:India Shines in QS World University Rankings: Asia (2025)
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