COIMBATORE: IIT-Delhi, IIT-Madras and IIT-Bombay have found a place in the subject-wise ranking for the year 2014 released by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a leading world university ranking agency, in the city on Tuesday.
Under the civil and structural engineering subject, IIT-M and IIT-B have been ranked as 49 and 50 respectively. Similarly, under the electrical and electronic subject, IIT-D and IIT-B have been ranked as 42 and 489 respectively. For material science, Indian Institute of Science has been awarded 46th place.
The rank list was released during a higher education summit held at the city-based Amrita University. The event was initiated by The Economic Times. Ben Sowter, the head of QS Intelligence Unit, said that the rankings were based on three criteria – academic reputation, employer reputation and citations per paper.
Rankings might be imperfect but they will help institutions to understand where they stand with regard to a certain criteria or parameters,” he said. QS is a private firm but its rankings are free of charge, said Sowter.
We have services which are charged but our rankings are delivered free of cost.
Our ranks will be in no way influenced by financial transactions,” he said.
Ben Sowter said Indian institutions have fared better in the rankings as we give weightage to teaching as well as ‘reputation’. If an institution has a certain reputation in a country, it must be good in that place,” he said.
It may not be possible in a year or two to gain entry into the list of best institutions across the world. They should aim to fare well in certain parameters like subject rankings. Later, they can spread their strength into other areas,” he said.
At the same time, he said, institutions should not be fixated on the ranking system. The aim should be to improve the quality. In fact, they change their methodology of evaluation every year to make it complicated and impossible to ‘track’ the methods and beat the system, he said.
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