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Pondicherry University has made it to the apical 500 Universities successful the QS Asia University Rankings 2026, marking a important betterment connected its erstwhile ranking.
A property enactment from the University said the instauration had secured the 470th presumption with an wide people of 30.7, among 1,526 institutions from 48 Asian countries.
The University ranked 7th among Central Universities successful India and 63rd among Indian Universities portion successful the Southern Asia region, it precocious from 140 to 121 successful the QS Asia University rankings.
The University said the caller rankings marked a commendable betterment from its erstwhile presumption successful the 501–520 set successful the 2025 rankings successful presumption of world excellence, probe output, and planetary engagement. The advancement successful wide people — from 18.8 successful 2025 to 30.7 successful 2026 — reflected notable improvements crossed aggregate show indicators.
Among the assorted parameters of the QS Asia University Rankings 2026 wherever the University ramped up its show were ‘Academic Reputation’ (from 16.4 to 22.9) to signify a increasing designation of scholarly excellence and ‘Employer Reputation’ (from 9.2 to 13.3), reflecting the rising request for its graduates successful the occupation market.
The University besides registered a marked enhancement successful the Faculty–Student Ratio — from 8.5 to 15.3 — portion ‘Papers per Faculty’ accrued from 48.2 to 76.6 and ‘Citations per Paper’ grew from 16.9 to 19.4, intelligibly demonstrating greater probe productivity and impact.
According to the property note, the University’s internationalisation efforts besides gained important momentum, with the ‘International Faculty Ratio’ expanding from 4.6 to 5.1 and the ‘International Student Ratio’ virtually doubling from 2.0 to 4.0.
Other noteworthy achievements were the crisp emergence successful the ‘International Research Network’ people — from 26.3 to 77.6 — indicating a large enlargement successful planetary probe collaborations; emergence successful the percent of module holding PhDs from 74.5% to 97.4% and pupil mobility, with inbound speech students rising from 2.8 to 11.9 and outbound speech students expanding from 7.9 to 12.8, the University said.
P. Prakash Babu, Vice-Chancellor, portion congratulating the squad effort down the success, called for sustaining the enthusiasm and focused committedness to further elevate the Pondicherry University’s lasting successful future.
