DU, BUET remain at same positions: QS world ranking

The country’s two leading universities—University of Dhaka (DU) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)—have remained in the same positions ranging between 801 and 1000 in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university ranking of 2022.

The QS world university ranking has placed these two universities within the same bracket this year too: 801 to 1000.

Along with these universities, the two private universities, BRAC University and North South University, have secured their positions in the world ranking, between 1001 and 1200 range.

The United Kingdom-based organisation has published this year’s QS World University Rankings 2022 on Wednesday.

In 2018, DU became the first university from Bangladesh to secure in the most reputed QS rankings. It was then placed between 701 and 750 universities.

QS World University Rankings is the world’s most reliable one. It assesses a university on the basis of six parameters – academic reputation, employment reputation, faculty student ratio, citation per faculty, international faculty ratio and international student ratio. A university is measured on 100 marks.

For the tenth consecutive years, Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) has gained the top position while the other top five universities are University of Oxford, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, and Harvard University.

Among the Asian universities, DU has been ranked at 134 with overall 35.4 points while BUET named at 199 securing 25.4 score.

In Asia, National University of Singapore (NSU) has gained the first position followed by Tsinghua University in China and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.