Academicians and education experts have hailed India’s best-ever performance in the QS World University Rankings 2026, with 54 Indian universities making it to the global list. This marks a significant rise from 46 institutions last year and just 11 in 2014.

With this, India now ranks fourth globally, behind only the US, the UK, and China, in terms of the number of universities featured, reflecting the country’s growing presence in global higher education.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan congratulated the academic institutions on this achievement via social media. Academicians and education experts attributed this remarkable performance to the government’s focus on education reforms, especially under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

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