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UoH ranks among the top 3.8% institutions of higher education worldwide

 

The city-based University of Hyderabad (UoH) is ranked # 925 among the 25,000+ degree-granting institutions of higher education worldwide in this year's CWUR World University Rankings, which has been published on http://cwur.org/2015/. This means the University is among the top 3.8% institutions providing higher education worldwide. There are sixteen institutions from India in the top 1000 that include six Universities and ten institutes like the IITs, IISc, AIIMS, TIFR etc.

IIT-Delhi tops among the Indian institutions with a rank of 341 and an overall score of 45.54. UoH has an overall score of 44.11. Harvard University from USA tops the overall list.

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) publishes the only global university ranking that measures the quality of education and training of students as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research without relying on surveys and university data submissions.

The CWUR used eight objective and robust indicators to rank the world's top 1000 universities:

1) Quality of Education, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals relative to the university's size [25%]
2) Alumni Employment, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have held CEO positions at the world's top companies relative to the university's size [25%]
3) Quality of Faculty, measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals [25%]
4) Publications, measured by the number of research papers appearing in reputable journals [5%]
5) Influence, measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals [5%]
6) Citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research papers [5%]
7) Broad Impact, measured by the university's h-index [5%]
8) Patents, measured by the number of international patent filings [5%]

Of particular note, University of Hyderabad ranked as follows:

National Rank: 16
Quality of Education Rank: 367+
Alumni Employment Rank: 567+
Quality of Faculty Rank: 218+
Publications Rank: 879
Influence Rank: 910
Citations Rank: 812+
Broad Impact Rank: 880
Patents Rank: 871+
Overall Score: 44.11

Links:

Methodology - http://cwur.org/methodology/

A quantitative approach to world university rankings- http://cwur.org/methodology/preprint.pdf 

Rankings by Country (India) - http://cwur.org/2015/india.html