India ranks 24th in QS higher edu strength rating, US bags top spot

India ranks 24th in QS higher edu strength rating, US bags top spot

The QS Higher Education System Strength Rankings (HESSR) 2016--an overall ranking of higher education system--has ranked India at the 24th position with a score of 60.9 out of 100. The US has scored a centum and tops the heap, UK is in the second place with 98.5, while Germany takes the third spot with 94.

With a score of 9.2, Pakistan ranks 50, the last position. The QS HESSR (overall ranking) is an assessment done through four categories--system strength, flagship, access and economic concept of different countries--in the field of higher education. All these categories are combined with equal weightage to give the overall rankings for the top 50 countries. In the system strength category, the top two rankings are shared by the US and UK respectively , followed by Singapore and India at rank 20. In this category, every country is awarded a score based on the number of institutions ranked 700 or above in the QS World Rankings, divided by the average position of those institutions.

The US continues to bag the top position in the access category too, with Australia and Germany at second and third position, respectively. India, with rank 42, hasn't fared well in this category either.

India ranks 26 in the flagship category, where the US, UK and Switzerland have secured the top three rankings. This category assesses the performance of the country's top institution within global rankings, and this is a normalized score based on the place each nation's top university occupies in the QS World University Rankings.

In the last category, economic context, India has managed to get 4th rank, with the US, China and the UK in first, second and third place, respectively .This final category assesses the impact of national investment in higher education, by comparing each nation's financial situation to its performance in international rankings.

Link for the Ranking | http://www.topuniversities.com/system-strength-rankings/2016#sorting=rank+custom=rank+order=desc+search=