NEW DELHI: Driven by its top-ranked universities, improving affordability and positive feedback from alumni, London retained its world’s best student city status, reports Manash Gohain.
The results, released on Wednesday by global higher education consultancy QS Quacquarelli Symonds in its ‘QS Best Student Cities Ranking 2022,’ sees London extend its table-topping run to three years, while Munich replaced Tokyo for the second place.
Seoul climbed seven places to share the third position with Tokyo.
Bangalore has been named among the top-10 most affordable cities for students, while Mumbai ranks 52nd globally in the “employer activity” indicator, according to the rankings. With students globally seeking to resume their international study plans, these rankings are aimed at providing students with independent data regarding a range of factors driving their study decisions – affordability, quality of life and the standard of university.
Though Bangalore lost three places in the affordability indicator, yet it remains firmly among the top 10, placed seventh globally in this metric. Featuring among the top 100, Mumbai ranks 52nd globally in the “employer activity” indicator, another key metric.
Overall, Mumbai (106th) and Bangalore (110th) are India’s entry in the rankings for best student cities for 2022. Both cities dropped compared to the previous editions losing twenty-nine places and twenty-one places respectively.