Times World University Rankings 2022

The 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) rankings were recently made public.
The QS World University Ranking for 2022 was previously published.

What are the Ranking's Key Highlights?

Teaching (30%), research (30%), citations (30%), international outlook (7.5%), and industrial output (2.5%) are the criteria used to rank the institutes. 15% of the weight given to teaching and research is based on reputational surveys.

Top Performer Globally:

Out of 1,799 universities from 104 countries, The University of Oxford has emerged as the top institution.

Rankings for Indian institutions:

With 75 ranked universities, India is the sixth most represented nation in the 2023 rankings.
For its performance score in both teaching and research, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is ranked first among Indian institutions.
The IISc is positioned in the range of 251-300 globally.
In the rankings for 2022, IISc was the highest-ranked Indian Institute.
Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, which is headquartered in Himachal Pradesh and debuted in the rankings, took second place among Indian institutions (351–400 overall).
IIT Ropar, the second-ranked Indian institution in the 2022 rankings, dropped to sixth place.
Algappa University, a public university in Tamil Nadu, supports the third position.
IITs' response: Due to concerns about transparency, the majority of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have boycotted it for the third year in a row.
IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi placed in the 401-500 overall band, behind IIT Ropar and IIT Indore, in 2019 when the major IITs last took part in the rankings.

What Indian initiatives are related to this?

Schools of Eminence (IoE) Program: An initiative by the government known as the Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme aims to create or upgrade 20 institutions—10 from the public and 10 from the private sectors—to become world-class centres of learning and research known as "Institutions of Eminence."
The National Education Policy, 2020 seeks to make a number of improvements to the Indian educational system from pre-school to college level and transform India into a superpower of knowledge.
Impacting Research Innovation and Technology (IMPRINT) is a pioneering Pan-IIT and IISc joint initiative to create a new education policy and a research roadmap to address the most pressing engineering and technological challenges that India must champion in order to enable, empower, and inspire the country's inclusive growth and self-reliance.
The Uchhatar Avishkar Yojana (UAY) was introduced with the goal of fostering higher-level innovation that directly addresses market demands and strengthens Indian manufacturing's competitiveness.

Source: The Indian express

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