The QS BRICS University rankings have been released on the official website. To our surprise, six universities including IITs and IISc Bangalore have made it to top 25 universities.

The QS BRICS University rankings have been released on the official website. To our surprise, six universities of India including IITs and IISc Bangalore have made it to top 25 universities.

Launched in 2013, the QS BRICS university rankings is an annual ranking of the top universities in the five BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It features 300 top universities from five countries.

The first rank has been secured by Tsinghua University, while the second position was grabbed by Peking University. Fudan University is at the third spot.

Indian rankings stood at the following:

Rank 9: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Rank 10: Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore
Rank 17: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
Rank 18: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Rank 21: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)
Rank 24: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)
Following is the list of the top 25 rank holders:

1. Tsinghua University

2. Peking University

3. Fudan University

4. University of science and Technology of China

5. Lomonosov Moscow State University

6. Zhejiang University

7. Shanghani Jian Tong University

8. Nanhing University

9. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

10. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

11. Novosivirsk State University

12. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)

13. Saint Petersburg State University

14. Universidade de Sao Paulo

15. Wuhan University

16. Sun Yat-sen University

17. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)

18. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)

19. University of Cape Town

20. Harbin Institute of Technology

21. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)

22. Tongji University

23. Xi’an Jiaotong University

24. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)

25. Beijing Normal University

Factors behind choosing the universities are the following:

According to the official website, “The BRICS ranking is compiled using eight different indicators, including the ratio of faculty to students, the proportion of academic staff with a PhD and the institution’s reputation among academics and employers.”