QS ranking profile
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
This page presents clearly labeled QS ranking data for orientation. It does not verify programs, supervisors, funding, admission requirements, or the university's website.
- QS 2026 rank
- #129
- Down 11 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #118
- Overall score
- 64.8
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QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
#120 worldwide
#39 worldwide
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Large
- About 12,000 to 30,000 students
- Subject range
- Full comprehensive
- All main faculty areas, including a medical school
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Asia
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
Research administration and research stories provide two distinct IIT Bombay views
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, or IIT Bombay, presents research through both a research-and-development office and public research stories. The Institute's Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre describes a role in coordinating research and development activity, research administration, intellectual-property management, licensing, and collaboration processes. This is useful background for understanding how work can be supported and managed across a large technical institution. It is not a substitute for a department, laboratory, or researcher page. Administrative structure can show the setting around research, while the local academic unit shows the question, method, and people that make a topic real.
The centre's history dates to 1976, giving the public research administration material a longer institutional context. That history should be read as context rather than proof of a present research direction. A reader interested in a specific technical area needs to begin with the object of study: a material, process, model, environmental system, device, health-related mechanism, or computational task. Then use the research pages to locate a current example or research home. This simple order prevents a broad account of research services from becoming a claim about all of IIT Bombay's scientific and engineering work.
Research glimpses point to problems that need local technical context
IIT Bombay's public research material includes examples connected with artificial intelligence for flood-depth estimation, hydrogen-related materials questions, medical research, plastics, climate-related work, and other engineering and scientific subjects. These glimpses show a range of research objects, but they do not establish a single institutional theme. Flood-depth work may combine remote sensing, modelling, geospatial data, or infrastructure knowledge. A hydrogen question may concern a material, chemical process, storage, or measurement. A plastics question can involve chemistry, mechanics, manufacturing, or environmental consequences. The public story is the beginning of a research trail, not the end of it.
A more useful comparison asks what each example requires. Does the question need a laboratory material, a computational model, a field measurement, an image, a sensor, a dataset, or a clinical setting? Once that is clear, the next page to find is the one that names the department, laboratory, project, or researcher working with that evidence. This avoids tying a broad topic to IIT Bombay merely because a story uses a similar word. It also leaves room for the possibility that a past research feature and a current local direction are related but not identical.
Make an IIT Bombay evidence card that distinguishes support from research work
An IIT Bombay research note can be organised around three short facts: the defined research problem, the local research home, and the surrounding institutional function. The problem should name the object and method. The local home should be a department, laboratory, centre, project, or researcher that visibly connects to it. The surrounding function may be research administration, intellectual-property support, a collaboration route, or a shared resource, but only if it is relevant. This arrangement clarifies that a research office helps explain the framework around work rather than proving the content of a particular study.
The final sentence should identify the most important missing detail. A research feature may describe a useful result while not showing whether a team continues to work on the same question. A laboratory may fit the method while its current project list is unavailable. An administrative page may show a process without revealing the research group's own practice. Keeping these limits explicit makes the comparison credible. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay offers both a visible research-administration structure and a set of technical research clues. Combining them with care produces a focused account of one research setting rather than a general institutional claim.