India surpasses China in QS Asia Rankings 2025: 7 Indian universities make it to prime 100, IIT Delhi leads

India outperformed China within the QS Asia College Rankings 2025. As many as 162 Increased Instructional Establishments (HEIs) from India discovered a spot within the listing. India witnessed highest development in college illustration in distinction with China. A complete of 135 Chenese universities ranked within the listing whereas Japan secured the third spot with 115 universities.

A complete of 6,278 universities from Asia have been surveyed by the London-based college rating group. The evaluating company used 11 efficiency indicators, together with Employer Popularity, Worldwide School Ratio, Worldwide Analysis Community, Worldwide Scholar Ratio, Tutorial Popularity, School-Scholar Ratio, Outbound Trade College students, Inbound Trade College students, Papers per School, Citations per Paper, and Employees with PhDs.

Based on the press launch, a complete of seven Indian universities featured within the prime 100 institutes in Asia, together with College of Delhi, IISc Bangalore, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur, amongst others. Notably, IIT Delhi secured forty fourth place and emerged because the highest-ranking Indian establishment in Asia and India this 12 months. In the meantime, IIT Bombay’s rating slipped to second place among the many prime establishments throughout India.

Amongst all personal universities in India, Chandigarh College (CU) continued its streak of excellent its efficiency and secured the highest spot within the QS Asia College Rankings. Its rank improved from 149th within the earlier version (2024) to a hundred and twentieth spot.

Chancellor of Chandigarh College and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Satnam Singh Sandhu mentioned, “India has grow to be some of the favorite tutorial locations to pursue greater training and plenty of worldwide college students have opted to review right here,” reported ANI.

He added, “In 2014, India ranked 81st in International Innovation Index, which has elevated to thirty ninth place in 2025. The variety of patents filed have elevated by 31 per cent and touched 83,000 in 2023 whereas there have been solely 42,700 patents filed until 2014.”

Total, the qualitative modifications in India’s greater training sector over the previous decade, aimed toward boosting analysis, studying, and innovation are the principle elements that accountable for making India probably the most represented greater training system in Asia.