Top Universities in India

361 universities in India with a measured position, 9 of them ranked worldwide.

#UniversityCityWorld rankIn-countryCitations
101 CCS Haryana Agricultural University not ranked #12 434,680
102 Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University not ranked #16 434,680
103 South Gujarat University not ranked #23 434,680
104 Tezpur University not ranked #24 434,680
105 University of Pune not ranked #26 434,680
106 University of Hyderabad not ranked #25 434,680
107 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics not ranked #14 434,680
108 Indian Agricultural Research Institute not ranked #17 434,680
109 Indian Institute of Science not ranked #18 434,680
110 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi not ranked #19 434,680
111 Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati not ranked #20 434,680
112 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur not ranked #21 434,680
113 National Institute of Technology Warangal not ranked #22 434,680
114 University of Burdwan not ranked #70 418,935
115 Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology not ranked #71 417,100
116 National Institute of Technology Durgapur not ranked #73 413,270
117 University of Kalyani not ranked #74 410,436
118 Tamil Nadu Agricultural University not ranked #75 407,983
119 University of Lucknow not ranked #72 405,670
120 Madurai Kamaraj University not ranked #77 399,204
121 Andhra University not ranked #78 395,263
122 National Institute of Technology Silchar not ranked #80 387,087
123 Sathyabama University not ranked #79 386,334
124 Punjabi University Patiala not ranked #82 377,970
125 Christ University not ranked #76 375,578
126 Karnatak University not ranked #83 375,021
127 Sri Ramachardra Medical College and Research Institute not ranked #86 364,970
128 Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar not ranked #88 359,497
129 University of Petroleum and Energy Studies not ranked #90 356,377
130 Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal not ranked #85 356,266
131 University of Kerala not ranked #87 355,316
132 Visva-Bharati University not ranked #89 353,875
133 Bangalore University not ranked #91 340,739
134 National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra not ranked #93 321,763
135 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar not ranked #94 314,160
136 Indian Institute of Technology, Patna not ranked #96 312,979
137 National Institute of Technology Calicut not ranked #97 311,372
138 Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology not ranked #95 311,082
139 Kurukshetra University not ranked #99 296,935
140 Vidyasagar University not ranked #98 296,221
141 Sardar Patel University not ranked #100 287,169
142 Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University not ranked #101 279,470
143 IIT Bhubaneswar not ranked #102 275,425
144 Karunya Institute Of Technology not ranked #103 270,657
145 National Institute of Technology Raipur not ranked #105 266,403
146 Indian Institute Of Technology–Ropar (IIT–Ropar) not ranked #107 262,710
147 Periyar University not ranked #106 260,973
148 Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology not ranked #110 248,220
149 Mangalore University not ranked #108 248,058
150 Sharda University not ranked #111 240,788
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What the two columns mean

In-country is the position the ranking record gives the university among those in its own country, and it is often the more useful number: a university ranked 480th in the world may still be third at home. It is carried over as published, so it does not always follow the order of the other two columns. World rank is the university's QS World University Rankings position. Citations are the number of times work published by the university has been cited, as recorded in OpenAlex; it is the measure used to order universities that QS does not rank at all.

The two do not always agree. A large research university can out-cite a smaller one that sits above it in QS, because QS weighs reputation surveys and staff ratios as well as research.

Rankings in other countries

USA 138 ranked UK 55 ranked Germany 40 ranked China 37 ranked Australia 31 ranked Canada 26 ranked France 19 ranked Italy 18 ranked South Korea 17 ranked Japan 16 ranked Spain 15 ranked Switzerland 13 ranked