India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University has emerged as the highest-ranked Indian university in the World University Rankings list 2024.
Key points
- The ranking was released by London-based higher education analytics firm, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
- JNU has been ranked 20th under the subject of Development Studies.
- JNU was also the country’s top-ranked university in the subjects of Geography, History, Modern Languages, Politics & International Relations, Anthropology, English Language & Literature, and Linguistics.
- Under the Development Studies section, University of Sussex was ranked top global institution.
- A total of 69 Indian universities with 424 entries have made it to the QS World University Rankings by subject, marking a 19.4% rise from the previous year’s 355 entries achieved by 66 universities.
- India is the second most represented country in Asia for the number of ranked universities (69), after mainland China with 101.
- The category ranks universities under the following parameters: Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Citations per paper and H-index citations.
