New Delhi: In the recently released 11th edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021, IIT Delhi featured among the top-100 world institutions for four of its academic programmes in the Engineering and Technology category.
The four IIT Delhi programmes, which achieved top-100 ranks globally are Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering.
The Institute’s Electrical Engineering programme achieved 54th rank (overall score 73.9), Computer Science 70th (overall score 71.3), Mechanical Engineering 79th (overall score 69.3) and the Civil Engineering was ranked in the 51-100 bracket.
The Institute was also ranked among India’s top institutions for Electrical & Electronic (1st rank), Mechanical (1st), Mathematics (1st), Statistics & Operations Research (1st), Linguistics (2nd), Computer Science & Information Systems (2nd), Civil & Structural (2nd),
Physics & Astronomy (3rd) and, Business & Management Studies (3rd).
Engineering & Technology is IIT Delhi’s strongest field and the Institute has been consistently ranked among the top 70 education institutions globally and top 3 domestically in this category.

While commenting on the QS Rankings by Subject 2021 in which four programmes offered by the Institute achieved the top-100 ranks globally, Prof. V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi said, “IITs are best known for their engineering disciplines. At IIT Delhi, in the last few
years, we have given great emphasis to other subject areas in our efforts to become multi disciplinary. Subjects such as Humanities, Social Sciences, Biology, Mathematics, Design and Chemistry are fast gaining ground and are becoming mainstream areas in a highly technology focused institution such as IIT Delhi. We consider these areas as integral to engineering and have taken steps to further scale them in terms of student intake and high quality faculty.”

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021: IIT Delhi’s Global Performance

S. No.  Broad Subject Area        Specific Subject            Global Rank
1.   Engineering &Technology     Electrical and Electronic     54
2. Engineering &Technology       Computer Science & InformationSystems  70
3. Engineering &Technology      Mechanical                             79
4. Engineering &Technology     Civil & Structural     51-100

Domestic Performance
S. No.   Broad Subject Area      Specific Subject    Domestic Rank
1 Engineering & Technology      Electrical & Electronic    1
2 Engineering &Technology     Mechanical          1
3 Natural Science                      Mathematics     1
4 Social Sciences &Management  Statistics & Operations Research   1

S. No. Broad Subject      Area Specific Subject    Domestic Rank
1 Arts & Humanities     Linguistics      2
2 Engineering &Technology    Computer Science & InformationSystems    2
3 Engineering &Technology     Civil & Structural     2

S. No. Broad Subject   Area Specific Subject   Domestic Rank
1 Natural Science       Physics & Astronomy      3
2 Social Sciences &Management    Business & Management Studies    3

A total of 51 specific subjects were ranked in 2021 by the QS under five broad subject areas in 1,453 institutions from across the globe.