QS World University Rankings 2017, Harvard Retains Top Spot

Harvard retained the top rank for the second successive year in the QS World University Rankings (Business & Management Studies) 2017 with London Business School and INSEAD also holding on to their second and third positions respectively.

The top ten ranks, with the exception of the Paris-based INSEAD, have been shared by American and British institutes. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was 4^th ranked, pushing Stanford University to the 6^th spot. The University of Pennsylvania was 5^th the same as in 2016, University of Oxford 7^th up one spot from last year, University of Cambridge 8^th, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 9^th and the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in the 10^th rank.

Compiled by global higher education think tank Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the Rankings provides an index of the world’s leading higher education institutions, based on six performance indicators.

Harvard has an overall score of 98.60, that takes into account academic reputation (100), citations per paper (93.8), employer reputation (100) and H-index citation of 92.3. It recorded a slight increase over the previous year’s score of 97.0.

The H-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. It is based on the set of the scientist’s most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications.

LBS retained its overall score of 95.00 it got in 2016. It scored 100 in academic reputation, 89.4 in citations per paper, 92.5 in employer reputation and 82.9 in the H-index citation.

INSEAD in the third spot saw its overall score drop to 93.70 from the previous year’s 95.6. MIT at rank 4 managed to improve its overall score to 98.00 from the previous year’s 92.0. Likewise, University of Pennsylvania’s overall score went up to 95.70 from 91.3 in 2016.

This year’s rankings have been expanded by 100 places to include 300 universities, allowing even more universities to be featured. Japan’s Hitotsubashi University is the highest-ranked of the new arrivals, with a place in the top 150.

None of the Indian Management Institutes, in the public sector or private, figure among the top 100. Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore maintain their 2015 ranking at 101 while IIM Calcutta is ranked 151 along with IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi.

IIM Ahmedabad is ranked 101, maintaining the same spot for the past three years from 2015 onwards. In terms of Academic reputation, it scores 70, in citations per paper it gets 66, in employer reputation, it scores 68 and in H-index citations, it gets 59.1.

IIM Bangalore is also ranked 101, the same spot it has been maintaining for the past three years. In Academic reputation, IIMB scores 65.7, in citations per paper 77, in employer reputation 64.2 and H-index citations 73.8.

IIM Calcutta is ranked 151, the same as in the past three years. In Academic reputation, IIMC scores 59.6, in citations per paper 76.4, in employer reputation 61.6 and H-index citations 71.2.