The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) has been ranked 41st on the recently announced list of QS World University Rankings 2022 in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category announced on June 08, 2021. Along with this, the Institute has gained rank 395 in World University Ranking globally.
The main reason for this increase is the strong improvement in the ‘Citations per Faculty’ category where IIT Guwahati has improved from 77.9 in 2021 (Global Rank 56) to 94.8 in 2022 (Global Rank 41). Professor TG Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, said, “I congratulate the faculty, students and staff of IIT Guwahati for this remarkable growth in this performance which clearly shows that despite the pandemic, the institute has been working tirelessly to make such a global impact. The institute has improved in Research Citations per Faculty indicating the visibility of research activities of the institute as well as in the Academic Reputation as the major contributors in this increase.”