Savitribai Phule Pune University ranking 2022 is released this year by national and global rating agencies like NIRF, Times Higher Education, US News, QS Ranking, etc. As per the latest NIRF 2022 rankings, SPPU ranks 12th among the top universities in India. In the overall category in NIRF Ranking 2022, the university has achieved 25th rank. SPPU bags the 541-550th rank band among the world’s best universities in the World by the QS World University Ranking 2023. The university has been ranked at the 801-1000th and 201-250th positions in the World and Asian categories respectively. SPPU also achieves the 1444th rank amongst the top 2000 global universities and the 38th rank in national rankings according to the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR). Check SPPU Affiliated Colleges

SPPU Ranking Highlights

Ranking  Year  Ranked at
QS Global World University Rankings 2023 541-550th
QS Asia University Rankings 2022 180th
NIRF 2022 12th in top 100 University category 25th in the overall category
Times Higher Education (World) 2022 801-1000th
Times Higher Education (Asia) 2022 201-250th
US News (Global) 2022 1254th position in Global Universities
US News (Asia) 2022 363rd position in Asian Universities
US News (India) 2022 29th position Indian Universities
CWUR World Rank 2022 1444th position
CWUR National Rank 2022 38th position

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SPPU NIRF Ranking 2022

The National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) is an initiative by the Government of India, which has authorized it to rank higher education institutions across India on different parameters.

As per the latest NIRF Ranking 2022, Savitribai Phule Pune University ranks 12th among the top universities in India, a rank down from its previous 11th position in 2021. In the overall category, the university has achieved 25th rank, which is a decrease from its 20th position in the 2021

SPPU NIRF Ranking Parameter Wise Score 

The overall ranking of SPPU is calculated based on the scores received in the following parameters:

Parameters  Score (out of 100)
Teaching Learning and Resources (TLR) 63.66
Research and Professional Practices (RP) 41.65
Graduation Outcomes (GO) 92.44
Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) 52.07
Perception 16.97
Total Score 56.99

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SPPU NIRF Ranking 2022 parameters 

As per the data provided above, the university secured a total score of 56.99 out of 100. SPPU NIRF rankings 2022 among the top 100 universities in the last 3 years are tabulated below:

Year  Rank 
2021 11
2020 9
2019 10

NIRF 2022 Top Universities

Following are the rankings of the top Universities in NIRF 2022 (University-wise Category) that have grabbed the top 12 spots. 

Rank  University Name  NIRF Score
1 Indian Institute of Science 83.57
2 Jawaharlal Nehru University 68.47
3 Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 65.91
4 Jadavpur University 65.37
5 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeeth 63.40
6 Banaras Hindu University 63.20
7 Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 62.84
8 Calcutta University 62.23
9 Vellore Institute of Technology 61.77
10 University of Hyderabad 61.71
11 Aligarh Muslim University 61.43
12 Savitribai Phule Pune University 59.48

QS India University Ranking

SPPU Pune has secured 14th place, climbing 5 places in the year 2020 from 19th rank last year and indicates continual growth in the Indian Universities. For those who are not aware about QS India ranking, there are 100 Universities across the country that took part in the QS India University Rankings.

The following are the parameters based on which the university is given the rank. This also shows how amazingly SPPU Pune performed as compared to 2019.

Ranking Criteria
Overall Score 48.6
Academic Reputation 43.6
Employer Reputation 58.5
Faculty Student 50.3
International Faculty 1.7
International Students 21.9
Faculty Staff with Ph.D. 61.2
Papers per Faculty 39.5
Citations per Paper 50.8

QS BRICS Ranking

SPPU Pune has been given the 100th score as per the BRICS Ranking. The following are the parameters based on which the university is given the rank.

Ranking Criteria
Overall Score 43.1
Academic Reputation 46.3
Employer Reputation 72.5
Faculty Student 25.9
International Students 22.1
Faculty Staff with Ph.D. 50.3
Papers per Faculty 18.2
Citations per Paper 32.7

Times Higher Education Rankings

Times Higher Education Rankings has placed SPPU Pune in the rank zone of 601-800 for the year 2019. However, in the Asia ranking list, the university has earned its position of 109th in the same year. Here the institute has shown a huge rise from its position of 188th last year.

Times Higher Education’s World Ranking parameters are given below with numerical values for SPPU Pune.

Parameters Score
Overall 28.3-35.2
Teaching 38.9
Research 18.5
Citations 46.6
Industrial Income 36.1
International Outlook 17.5

Times Higher Education’s Asia Ranking parameters are given below with numerical values for SPPU Pune.

Parameters Score
Overall 36.4
Citations 50.7
Industry Income 35.6
International Outlook 17.6
Research 18.9
Teaching 45.9

The top 5 institutes as ranked by Times Higher Education for the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 are:

Country-wise Ranking of Institute Institute Name Times Higher Education Asia 2019
1 IIT Indore 50
2 IIT Bombay 54
3 IIT Kanpur 82
4 Savitribai Phule Pune University 109
5 IIT Madras 120

Elaborating one of its parameter i.e. Industry Income which indicates the commercial impact of an Institution. The Line diagram represents the increase of Industry Income over the last 4 years for SPPU Pune. 

The Week Rankings

The Week’s Ranking for top universities in India has ranked SPPU Pune at 8th position in 2019 climbing up two steps from its previous position.

Institute Name The Week 2019 Ranking The Week 2018 Ranking
Jawaharlal Nehru University 1 1
Banaras Hindu University 2 3
University of Delhi 3 2
University of Hyderabad 4 4
Jadavpur University 5 6
Aligarh Muslim University 6 5
Jamia Millia Islamia 7 9
Savitribai Phule Pune University 8 10
University of Calcutta 9 8
Andhra University 10 13

Clearly, Savitribai Phule Pune University has done amazingly well as far as The Week’s rankings are concerned. It climbed up to two spots from 10th to 8th with a score of 519/1000.

The Week has a unique way of scoring. It follows a formula as stated below:

Final score = Perceptual score (out of 400) + factual score (out of 600)

The perceptual score is calculated on the basis of the number of nominations that they receive and the actual ranks that they give to a particular university.

For factual data collection, they create a special website and share the link with over 570 universities. Then, they calculate the factual score based on the data collected from the universities and also, on the basis of other secondary sources on age and accreditation, infrastructure and other facilities, faculty, research and academics, student intake and industry exposure and placements(only for technical universities).

Further studying other colleges in the list, Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Hyderabad have maintained their positions at 1st and 4th respectively in the year 2018 and 2019. Andhra University has also shown improvements of 3 steps up whereas Jamia Milia Islamia improved for 2 steps up.

OUTLOOK-ICARE University Rankings

Outlook-ICARE India Rankings has ranked the SPPU Pune at the 21st position in 2019. 

The ranking forum considers its own parameters which are-

  • Faculty Student Ratio (FSR): 15%
  • Faculty with PhD (FWP): 15%
  • Papers Per Faculty (PPF): 30%
  • Citations Per Paper (CPP): 30%
  • and Inclusiveness & Diversity (ID): 10%

Final scores are calculated using the sum total of all of these parameters. The following table represents the top 25 colleges as per the Outlook-ICARE Rankings.

Rank Name Place Overall Score
1 IIT Bombay Mumbai 96.52
2 IISc Bangalore Bangalore 96.08
3 IIT Madras Chennai 95.68
4 IIT Delhi New Delhi 95.55
5 IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 95.46
6 IIT Kanpur Kanpur 95.21
7 IIT Roorkee Roorkee 94.59
8 University of Delhi Delhi 91.93
9 IIT Guwahati Guwahati 90.70
10 Jadavpur University Kolkata 89.38
11 Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal 86.08
12 IIT Indore Indore 86.05
13 Anna University Chennai 85.90
14 Calcutta University Kolkata 83.84
15 BITS Pilani Pilani 83.81
16 Banaras Hindu University Varanasi 83.75
17 Jamia Milia Islamia New Delhi 82.28
18 Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 81.59
19 University of Hyderabad Hyderabad 81.02
20 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Coimbatore 80.94
21 Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune 80.65
22 IIT Ropar Rupnagar 80.53
23 Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai 80.26
24 IIT Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar 80.24
25 Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh 80.17

IIT Bombay scored the highest in all of the given parameters and bagged the first position while IISc Bangalore and IIT Madras are next behind it. Manipal Academy of Higher Education can be considered to be the best private institute as it is the only institute to find a place right after the top 10 spots were bagged by the government institutions.