5 IITs Make it Among the Top 20 BRICS Universities

Five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) --  IIT-Delhi, IIT-Mumbai, IIT-Madras, IIT-Kanpur,  and IIT-Kharagpur, are among the top 20 Universities from BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group of nations, says a list of QS University Rankings.

As per the "QS University Rankings: BRICS", announced recently, five names from India have secured the positions in top 20 with IIT-Delhi at 13^th rank  followed by IIT-Mumbai at 15, IIT-Madras at 16, IIT-Kanpur at 17, and IIT-Kharagpur at the 18^th place.   

China has dominated the table with 40 of its universities being featured in the top 100 including 22 in the top 50 and 4 in the top 5. Even, the first rank has been captured by China’s Tsinghua University.

Among the top 100, Russia has 19 of its universities, Brazil 17, India 16 and South Africa 8 in total.

After a huge gap past IIT-Kharagpur at the 18^th place, India reappear in the merit list at 34^th position with IIT-Rourkee, and at 51^st occupied by IIT-Guwahati.  

Then comes University of Calcutta at 52^nd rank followed by the University of Delhi at 53^rd. Among other Indian Universities that have occupied slots in top 100 are University of Mumbai (62), University of Hyderabad (64), University of Madras (70), Banaras Hindu University (85), IIT-Allahabad (92), University of Pune (94), and Manipal University at 100^th slot.  

The QS World University Rankings published recently also featured 11 Indian institutions in the top 800 with the highest ranking going to IIT-Delhi which was placed 222 in the list.

First-of-its-kind, the BRICS ranking is based on a special methodology designed especially to place the participating nations on a more equal footing. The “QS University Rankings: BRICS" is a result of responses collected from the respondents from over 9,800 academics/institutions of the featured nations.

QS University Rankings: BRICS: List of Top 20