Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee has improved its position by 50 places in the QS World University Rankings 2019. IIT Roorkee’s overall ranking stands at 381, its highest so far.
This year, IIT Roorkee improved its performances in almost all the criteria of the rankings, such as Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, International Students and Citations per Faculty. The institute is placed at 36 in ‘Citations per Faculty’ ranking, the best among all IITs. It has also stood out in the ‘International Students’ parameter. IIT Roorkee’s ‘Citations per Faculty’ is at 121.8, way above the global median of 34.1.
The QS Rankings classified IIT Roorkee as a ‘historic’ public institution with ‘very high’ focus on ‘research intensity’.
Speaking about the institute’s performance, Prof Ajit Chaturvedi, Director, said, “This impressive improvement in the QS World University Rankings 2019 is undoubtedly an outcome of the sustained hard work put in by my faculty colleagues and students towards pursuing quality research. Every member of the community, including the non-teaching staff, takes great pride in our legacy and our responsibility towards the institute. We will strive for further improvements in the future.”
How it works
The QS World University Rankings has six criteria with different weights that are summed up to get the results — academic and employer reputation, faculty student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty and international students.
IIT Roorkee has, in the past few years, taken several initiatives to attract bright research scholars and young professors from around the world by introducing various schemes to facilitate and recognise outstanding research.