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Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday congratulated the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here for being ranked the world’s top research university by an international agency.
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In a tweet, he said, “Congratulations to @iiscbangalore on being ranked the world’s top research university in the QS World University Rankings. Imparting world-class education & facilitating cutting- edge research in science, technology, and engineering, IISc makes every Indian proud.”
Congratulations to @iiscbangalore on being ranked the world's top research university in the QS World University Rankings. Imparting world-class education & facilitating cutting-edge research in science, technology, and engineering, IISc makes every Indian proud.
— B.S. Yediyurappa (@BSYBJP) June 10, 2021
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According to the coveted QS World University Rankings, the Indian Institute of Science was rated the world’s top research university as per the citations per faculty indicator.
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The IISc secured a perfect score of 100 out of 100 for the citations per faculty (CPF) metric in the analysis by London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
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For the QS World University Rankings, institutions and universities were judged on six indicators– academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty/student ratio, international faculty ratio and international student ratio.
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This year, rankings listed the world’s top 1,300 universities – 145 more than in the last year’s edition, which can be found in 97 locations.
CONCLUSION
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Of 13,000 institutions, 6,415 were found eligible for the survey analysis, and 1,705 were assessed for the final table.
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The results accounted for the distribution and performance of 14.7 million academic papers published between 2015 and 2019, and the 96 million citations received by those paper.
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They also accounted for the expert opinions of over 1,30,000 academic faculty and over 75,000 employers.