QS Rankings 2026

Best Universities in India

Discover and compare the top 54 universities in India by QS World Rankings 2026

Ranked Universities

#124

Highest Rank

15.7

Avg. Score

18.5

Academic Rep.

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World	Local	University	City	Score	Academic	Employer
#=123	#1	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	New Delhi	65.5	67.9	95.0
#129	#2	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	Mumbai	64.8	73.3	96.7
#180	#3	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	Chennai	58.4	56.8	85.8
#=215	#4	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP)	Kharagpur	54.5	42.5	78.6
#=219	#5	Indian Institute of Science	Bangalore	54.2	56.6	46.4
#222	#6	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	Kanpur	53.7	49.4	82.7
#=328	#7	University of Delhi	New Delhi	42.6	46.9	41.9
#=334	#8	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)	Guwahati	42.3	25.4	62.0
#=339	#9	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)	Roorkee	42.2	26.8	52.2
#=465	#10	Anna University	Chennai	33.8	15.0	19.4
#503	#11	Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences	Solan	32.1	16.2	22.5
#=556	#12	Indian Institute of Technology Indore	Indore	29.6	8.0	16.9
#=558	#13	Jawaharlal Nehru University	New Delhi	29.5	39.8	17.4
#=566	#14	Indian Institute of Technology BHU Varanasi (IIT BHU Varanasi)	Varanasi	29.3	9.3	19.4
#=566	#15	Savitribai Phule Pune University	Pune	29.3	11.1	20.3
#=575	#16	Chandigarh University	Mohali	29.1	22.4	70.0
#=664	#17	Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH)	Sangareddy	26.4	10.3	15.0
#=664	#18	University of Mumbai	Mumbai	26.4	11.3	31.5
#=668	#19	Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani	Pilani	26.3	18.0	32.6
#=676	#20	Jadavpur University	Kolkata	26.1	23.2	10.5
#=691	#21	Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India	Vellore	25.4	20.5	26.0
#696	#22	Symbiosis International (Deemed University)	Pune	25.2	9.2	94.7
#731-740	#23	National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli	Tiruchirappalli	—	4.1	5.3
#761-770	#24	Jamia Millia Islamia	New Delhi	—	13.0	5.6
#771-780	#25	Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology	Patiala	—	4.0	9.3
#771-780	#26	University of Calcutta	Kolkata	—	19.7	11.1
#801-850	#27	Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN)	Gandhinagar	—	7.0	9.1
#801-850	#28	University of Hyderabad	Hyderabad	—	17.7	4.6
#851-900	#29	Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India	Manipal	—	14.7	11.8
#851-900	#30	O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)	Sonepat	—	15.9	29.7