US News Ranks IITB #30 in the world

U.S. News has published its second annual World's Best Universities rankings. These rankings are based on data from the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, which were produced in association with QS Quacquarelli Symonds.

IIT Bombay was ranked #1 in India and #30 in the world in the rankings and IIT Delhi was ranked at #35. MIT was ranked as the #1 Engineering school in the world.

How are the World's Best Universities rankings different from U.S. News's America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools rankings?

First, none of the data from the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools rankings are used in the World's Best Universities rankings. QS Quacquarelli Symonds does all the data collection and calculations for the World's Best Universities rankings.

Second, the methodology used to compute the World's Best Universities is different in many key areas. The World's Best Universities rankings use six criteria: academic peer review, employer review, student/faculty ratio, citations per faculty member, the proportion of international faculty, and the proportion of international students. The U.S. News America's Best Colleges rankings do use peer assessment; it's weighted 25 percent in the rankings, compared to a total 50 percent weight in the World's Best Universities rankings Top 200 rankings. The America's Best Colleges rankings do not use citation analysis of faculty research. The World's Best Universities rankings do not use student data such as SAT/ACT scores, graduation and retention rates, size of undergraduate classes, alumni giving rates, and financial resources—all of which are key parts of the America's Best Colleges rankings.

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