With a record 54 HEIs featuring among the global best, India hits a new high in the QS World University 2026 Rankings.

From just 11 universities in 2014 to 54 in the latest rankings, this five-fold jump is a testament to the transformative educational reforms ushered by PM Narendra Modiji’s govt. in the last decade.

NEP 2020 is not just changing our educational landscape, it is revolutionising it. Matter of immense pride that India is also the fastest growing education system among G20 countries and the fourth most represented behind only the U.S. UK and China. Confident that with NEP’s thrust on research, innovation and internationalisation, more Indian HEIs will scale global excellence in the times ahead.

-Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Education