GUWAHATI: Three of Assam’s educational institutes have been listed among the 100 best institutes in the country, according to the QS India University Rankings 2020.
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-Guwahati) secured the 10th rank, while Tezpur University and Gauhati University secured the 35th and 72nd position respectively.
IIT-Bombay topped the rankings for the second consecutive year, followed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and IIT-Delhi.
The rankings include higher education, public, private or deemed universities.
The methodology used eight indicators to determine the institutions’ rankings. These indicators include academic reputation (30 pc), employer reputation (20 pc), faculty-student ratio (20 pc), the proportion of staff with a PhD (10 pc), papers per faculty from Scopus database (10 pc), citations per paper from Scopus database (5 pc), the proportion of international students (2.5 pc ) and the proportion of international faculty (2.5 pc).