Industry Odisha Bureau, Jun 24: London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British company specializing in higher education analysis and global university rankings, has reportedly ranked India 13th globally in its ‘QS World Future Skills Index 2027’, while it has reportedly identified India’s ‘Skill Alignment’ as the country’s biggest weak-point.
Reportedly, the 13th rank “reflects India’s strong AI and digital economy readiness, scoring highly on the scale of its higher education system and future workforce potential, but India has been found very weak in aligning the skills of its graduates, especially in AI, digital and green sectors.”
Notably, India had reportedly ranked “25th in the QS World Future Skills Index 2025”.
As per media reports, “QS has awarded India an overall score of 89.4 out of 100, placing it among the world’s strongest performers in AI-economy readiness, labour-market potential and economic transformation.”
Media reports quoting QS President Nunzio Quacquarelli have stated that, “India’s digital workforce and demographic scale position it well for sustained economic growth, but improving the median quality of talent produced by the Indian institutions remains a critical challenge. India must raise graduate quality across institutions and address capacity constraints in higher education.”
The QS has reportedly observed that, “Even though IITs, IIMs and AIIMS remain globally competitive and most Indian institutes produce graduates at scale, graduate employability remains comparatively low across the wider higher education system. Nvertheless, India has topped all the South Asian countries included in this edition of rankings despite being ranked 13th globally.”
