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Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay leads the 475 Public universities in India at #118 in the QS World University Rankings 2026. Next come Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (QS World #180) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (QS World #222). Across the whole list there are 1,729 courses to choose from.
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9 of these universities hold a QS World position, from #118 (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) to #580 (Jawaharlal Nehru University); they are listed first, in that order. The rest are ordered by research impact. Bharathiar University has the largest research record in this group, with 4,423,049 citations and an h-index of 459. 122 universities have neither a QS position nor a research record yet and appear at the end, marked "Not yet ranked".
The split is 475 public to 0 private institutions.
By level: 968 bachelor's, 517 master's, 122 phd / doctorate and 62 diploma. The most common subjects are Engineering (433), Business & Management (245), Computer Science & IT (196) and Science (121). The usual length is 4 years and 1–2 years. 99% are full-time and 7 can be studied online. Start dates lean to Fall (97% of courses with a stated intake) and Spring (89% of courses with a stated intake). Goa University offers the widest choice, with 68 of these courses.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (QS World #118), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (QS World #180) and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (QS World #222) lead this list. QS World positions come first; the rest are ranked by research impact.
475 public and 0 private universities are on this list.
Most listed courses run 4 years, with 1–2 years the next most common.
Fall is the main intake — 97% of courses with a stated start date begin then, and Spring is the second.
7 of these courses are listed as online.
Goa University, with 68, ahead of Tripura University (64).
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