Shoolini University Tops India in QS Rankings on Citation Index

SOLAN, India , Nov. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Eleven-year-old Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, based out of Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, has topped India in the 2021 QS rankings for citation index, an indicator of quality research in institutions.

It has been ranked at number 14 across Asia in the same field.

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is an independent and highly prestigious credible global ranking organisation for educational institutions and its Asia rankings were declared on Wednesday night at an online function.

Shoolini University, the youngest to be among top ranked, has been ranked joint seventh among all private universities in the country and 38th among all universities and educational institutions. This includes better performance than most IITs, Panjab University and several other established institutions. It is the only institution in Himachal Pradesh to be ranked in the list.

The QS Asia rankings also placed Shoolini University among the top 300 Universities of Asia . Significantly, it is for the first time that the University has been included in the QS rankings. It has debuted in the 2021 edition with percentile evolution of 43.4 per cent.

The young, Trust-run university, which has been making waves in the field of research and innovation, was recently placed third in the Education Ministry's list for filing patents in the country which was topped by the combined output of all the 23 IITs of the country.

Vice Chancellor Prof P K Khosla said the QS rankings the University has reflected the sincerity and hard work of the researchers at the University. He said the University was poised to reach greater heights and added that its mission was to be among the top global universities.

The achievement is all the more significant in view of the fact that the ranking is among over 1,000 institutions, including IITs, IIMs and central research institutes and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, in India . Another highlight of the report is that the University has figured among the top 44 per cent of the QS World University Rankings.

The QS rankings are based on key global indicators such as academic reputation, employee reputation, faculty-student ratio, staff with PhD, citations per Paper, international research network, Papers per faculty, international faculty and students, inbound exchange students and outgoing exchange students.

The QS Asia rankings have included 634 institutions from among estimated 20,000 institutions in Asia.

The University, located at Bajhol village in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, has been retaining its place in the 101-150 band of the National Institutional Rankings Framework (NIRF) by the government of India's education ministry for the last four years in a row.

The young University has so far filed nearly 450 patents and at least seven of its faculty members were recently placed among top two per cent of scientists of the world as per a study done by the Stanford University .

It was recently placed in the band from six to 25 in the Atal Rankings of private Institutions on Innovations and Achievements (ARIIA) at the all-India level recently.

The University had also got the prestigious QS international certification for excellence in Academic digitalisation and was shortlisted for Times Higher Education (THE) in the category of "Outstanding Student Support" for the Asia Awards 2020.

Citations per paper is measured by the average number of citations obtained per publication, and is a proxy of the impact and 10 per cent quality of the scientific work done by the universities. Underlying data of paper and citations is indexed by Scopus.

The paper and citations counts are normalised in an attempt to equalise the influence of citations across five broad faculty areas.

Earlier, Shoolini University was among only 35 of the one lakh institutions, including over 900 universities, across the country to be awarded certification for Excellence in Academic Digitisation.

It was also shortlisted for the category of "Outstanding Support for Students" for the implementation of its Skill Progression Through Rapid Intensive and Innovative Training (SPRINT) Programme with SIQANDAR.AI, a software developed for assessing and guiding students for soft skills and interviews.

About Shoolini University:

Set up in 2009, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences is a research-driven private university with full-recognition from the UGC. A leading university of India , it is recognised for its focus on innovation, quality placements, and world-class faculty. Nestled in the lower Himalayas, the university has received accreditation from NAAC and it is ranked by the NIRF.

For further information, please visit: https://shooliniuniversity.com/

Himachal's Shoolini University Declared 3rd in India in Filing Patents

Ten-year-old Shoolini University has added another feather to its cap with having ranked third in the country, and first in Himachal Pradesh, in filing patents by academic institutes and universities across India. 

As per the annual report recently released by the Office of Intellectual Rights, India, the first in the list of patent filers are the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). However, the patents filed by all the 23 IITs in the country have been merged to declare the group of institutions as the top patent filer.

The rankings were declared on Thursday by the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trade Marks and Geographical Indicators under the Union ministry of Commerce and Industry's Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.

While the report did not disclose the exact number of patents filed by different institutions, it mentioned the number of patents filed from each state. According to it, a total of 193 patents were filed from Himachal Pradesh during April 2018 and March 2019 while Shoolini University alone has the record of filing 185 of these patents during the period. Despite a number of institutions, including centrally funded institutions, in Himachal Pradesh, almost all patents have been filed by Shoolini University researchers who have taken the state to be among the top patent filing states of the country.

The University has so far filed 425 patents since its inception.

Congratulating the faculty and students for the prestigious rankings, Vice Chancellor Prof P K Khosla said the rankings reflect the emphasis laid on research in the University. He said the University was already rubbing shoulders with the world's top universities in various parameters of research and innovation.

He said the university started paying focus on research in late 2014 and its researchers could file only 33 patents for the first year. It picked up pace and has filed a total of 425 patents till date. The next step after the formal filing of patents is the publication of the patent and so far 211 of these patents have been published.

Prof Khosla said that 30 of its design patents have been granted besides a trademark. He also informed that six copyrights have been granted to the University.

The Vice Chancellor said that the covid pandemic has slowed down the research work but stressed that efforts are being made to expedite pending projects.

The University has filed the maximum number of patents in Biotechnology followed by those in engineering, basic sciences and pharmaceuticals.

About Shoolini University:

Set up in 2009, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences is a research-driven private university with full-recognition from the UGC. A leading university of India, it is recognised for its focus on innovation, quality placements, and world-class faculty. Nestled in the lower Himalayas, the university has received accreditation from NAAC and it is ranked by the NIRF.

For further information, please visit: https://shooliniuniversity.com/