IIT Bombay secured the top spot among best Indian universities in the prestigious QS World University Ranking 2025.
Over the years, Indian universities have made remarkable progress in education. The result is visible in recently publised QS World University Ranking 2025. In this article, we will discuss about the top ranker universities and notable alumni in different fields.
Performance of Indian Universities:
In the latest QS World University ranking, IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi have featured among the top 150 global universities.
The IIT-B has ranked 118 (149 in 2024) to 118 in the 2025 rankings. While IIT Delhi secured 150th rank (197 in 2024) this year. IISc is ranked 211. The IIT Kharagpur and IIT Madras secured 3rd and 4th spots with the rank of 222 and 227 respectively.
IIT Bombay: Established in 1958, IIT Bombay has produced some of the brilliant minds. Most notable alumni of this prestigious institute are chairman of Infosys Nandan Nilekani, former Minister of Defence of India Manohar Parrikar, former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, CEO of Ola Cabs Bhabish Aggarwal, former Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSCC) of Department of Space of India Sivan Kailasavadivoo, and so on.
IIT Delhi: Notable alumni of IIT Delhi are Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Navi Sachin Bansal, famous author Chetan Bhagat, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan, and so on.
IISc Bangalore: One of the most renowned global institutes, IISc Bangalore has gifted many excellent scientists. Some of them are biochemist Govindarajan Padmanaban, former Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Rajagopala Chidambaram, former Chairperson of the VSCC A. S. Kiran Kumar, theoretical physicist Ganapathy Baskaran, and so on.
IIT Kharagpur: The first established IIT in India, IIT Kharagpur has been a pioneering institute which has gifted brilliant minds including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, politician Arvind Kejriwal, Panchayat actor Jitendra Kumar, and so on.
IIT Madras: Established in 1959, IIT Madras has nurtured brilliant minds like Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO of Fairfax Financial Prem Watsa, business theorist Marti G. Subrahmanyam, and so on.
Jessica Turner, QS Chief Executive emphasized on growth in education in India: “The growing prominence of Indian higher education is evident, with 46 universities now ranked and 61% improving their positions. The bold implementation of India’s National Education Policy (NEP) demonstrates the nation’s commitment to modernising its education system and addressing challenges and leveraging opportunities.”
Mainly, India has made a remarkable progress in research and international collaboration in recent times. This is evident from Citations per Faculty indicator, where India scored 37.8, surpassing the global average of 23.5.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has secured the top rank for 13th consecutive years, followed by UK’s Imperial College London. The third position is hold by University of Oxford and Harvard University.
In this year ranking, University of Delhi (DU) became the talk of the town because of excellent growth. DU jumped from the rank of 407 (in last year) to 328 this year.
Broadly, the ranking of 61% of Indian universities have improved this year. Nearly 24% of universities have strongly maintained their positions, while only 9% have witnessed a decline in rank.
