Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur ranked 2nd in India in the latest QS World University Rankings Sustainability 2025.
The institute jumped ahead 147 places in comparison to its 2024 performance to become the 202nd University in the world; 23rd in Asia and 2nd in India.
It has been ranked in Environment Research, Environment Sustainability, Knowledge Exchange, Employability, Opportunity and Governance.
The top place has been bagged by IIT Delhi (globally 171th rank) which saw an improvement of 255 ranks. The third rank has been taken by IIT Bombay with an improvement of 69 ranks (global rank 234).
IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras bagged the fourth and fifth ranks in India.
A total of 78 Indian universities feature in the 2025 QS Sustainability rankings, with nine of the top 10 institutions in the country improving their ranking this year.
Globally, the University of Toronto is the top ranked university this year, ahead of ETH Zurich in second, and Lund University in Sweden and University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in joint third.
