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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)

IndiaAsia

#222

QS World University Rankings 2026

53.7

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#222

QS World University Rankings 2026

#263

QS World University Rankings 2025

53.7

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
49.4
QS 2026 rank
#229

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
82.7
QS 2026 rank
#95

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
16.1
QS 2026 rank
#801

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
84.1
QS 2026 rank
#129

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
3.1
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
1.4
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
5.8
QS 2026 rank
#801

International research network

QS 2026 score
42.1
QS 2026 rank
#801

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
47.6
QS 2026 rank
#366

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
74.7
QS 2026 rank
#243
University profile

About Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)

Fundamental and applied work in one research setting

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, usually called IIT Kanpur or IITK, describes its research environment as connecting fundamental inquiry with applied work. Its public research pages identify activity across engineering, sciences, humanities, economics, management, schools, and interdisciplinary programmes. This matters because a question in robotics, biological engineering, energy, materials, computing, or public systems can have a technical core while also needing expertise from another area. Rather than beginning from the institute's overall reputation, begin from the department or programme that supplies the main concepts and methods for the problem you want to study.

IIT Kanpur also directs readers to research facilities, featured experts, research and development information, publications, and major research areas. These resources are useful for moving from a broad field into a specific setting. A department page can identify the academic base; a facility page may clarify the practical environment; and a researcher profile can show an active line of inquiry. Build your comparison from the combination that best matches your question. One institutional page cannot explain the full range of work happening across the institute within that specific intellectual setting.

Interdisciplinary questions and research facilities

The IIT Kanpur research overview includes examples from civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, and biological sciences and bioengineering. It also points to socially relevant research and an initiative on sustainable technology. These examples show that public research information can connect a technical method with a wider problem. The correct next step is not to assume a direct fit. It is to examine the relevant group and ask whether the question, experimental setting, computational approach, or field problem is close to the work you want to develop.

The institute's innovation and incubation information describes a Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre that helps connect ideas with real-world use. This is useful context for someone interested in the path from research to implementation. It should not overshadow the academic work itself. Check whether the relevant department or research group has current activity that is visible and genuinely related to your interest. A connection to an innovation system is meaningful only when it sits beside a clear research foundation.

Building a clear IIT Kanpur research note

A careful IIT Kanpur note begins with a defined technical or scientific question. Find the department, school, or interdisciplinary programme that owns the question, then select a small number of researchers or projects that reveal how it is being approached. Explain the relationship in ordinary language. You might identify a common model, material, prototype, data challenge, or scientific mechanism. If you are left with only a general field label, keep investigating until the evidence points to a real academic home.

Use the institute's main pages as a map of departments, facilities, research support, and innovation activity. Use field-level material to decide whether the work is relevant to you. The numbers displayed above this profile refer to institutional data and do not estimate the value of a particular project or research relationship. Keep your final shortlist grounded in recent material from the people and units closest to the subject you want to pursue.

Institution record

Country
India
Region
Asia
Status
Public
QS size code
M
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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