{"id":22368,"date":"2026-03-26T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22368"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:20:34","slug":"qs-world-university-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/qs-world-university-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"QS World University Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>QS World University Rankings Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IIM-K) has achieved a global milestone by breaking into the Top 100 of the prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About QS World University Rankings<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is published annually by global higher education <\/span><b>consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The QS rankings evaluate universities on several parameters, including academic reputation, overall score, employer reputation, and employment outcomes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It uses a <\/span><b>structured approach to assess<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> institutions across the globe. Each ranking is built on a set of measurements that help evaluate different aspects of university performance. These measurements are grouped as follows:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Lens:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A collection of indicators linked by a common theme, such as research or employability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Five Lenses: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research and Discovery, Employability and Outcomes, Global Engagement, Learning Experience, Sustainability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Indicator:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A specific area of performance, such as Citations per Faculty or Employer Reputation. Institutions are scored and ranked on each indicator, which contributes to their overall rank.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Metric:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A detailed calculation within an indicator, used to generate precise scores.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Highlights of QS World University Rankings<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>India recorded 120 new entries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this year, placing it fourth globally for fresh appearances, behind only the US (287), China (181), and the UK (159).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country now holds the <\/span><b>fourth-largest presence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in these <\/span><b>rankings by institution count<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, after the US, China, and the UK.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six Indian institutions now feature in the <\/span><b>global top 100 for computer science<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, all improving from last year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Indian Institute of Technology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ISM) Dhanbad and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, both securing the country&#8217;s highest global rank of 21.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>IIT-ISM Dhanbad<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has retained its stronghold in <\/span><b>mineral and mining engineering.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IIM Ahmedabad has broken into the top 25 globally <\/span><b>in business and management studies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well as marketing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/iim-k-breaks-into-global-top-100-in-qs-rankings\/article70784219.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QS World University Rankings is an annual global ranking by Quacquarelli Symonds, evaluating universities based on academic reputation, faculty, research, and employability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":94987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,955,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-22368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-qs-world-university-rankings","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94998,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22368\/revisions\/94998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}