QS Asian University Rankings 2018: IIT-Bombay ranked the best in India

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay was pegged as the best Indian university in the 2018 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings for Asia, where most of the prominent Indian educational institutes slid from their past ranks.

IIT Bombay is presently ranked at 34th among 400 Asian universities assessed in the list by British organisation QS.

IIT Bombay is followed by IIT Delhi (41), IIT Madras (48), and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru (51).

As per the QS rankings which were published on Monday, IISc's rank has dropped the most among Indian institutes. It was at the top in India and at the 33rd position in 2017. Since then, it has slipped by 18 ranks.

IIT Bombay has an overall score of 75.7 based on indicators such as academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty to student ratio, papers attributable to per Faculty (Data from Scopus) and so on.

In terms of academic and employer reputation, IIT Bombay maintained high scores of 88.1 and 97.5 respectively. It is the only one among top institutes that has somewhat maintained its position, going up by one rank from last year.

"Employer Reputation indicated the strongest one for IIT Bombay with a rank of 21 globally," IIT Bombay said in a statement on Tuesday.

The top three universities in Asia are National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Neighbouring China has its Tsinghua University in fifth place, followed by Peking University at ninth.