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Top 100 Universities in India

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest universities in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1.7k universities tracked in India, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. ESIC, University of Oxford and University of Delhi lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 5.9M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 407k, and the largest, ESIC, reaches around 2.9M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each university, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 424k 27.0 29.9% University
27 Harvard University Press 418k 31.8 20.8% University
28 University of Central Punjab 416k 27.1 34.1% University
29 University of Mumbai 410k 27.5 31.2% University
30 Stanford University 399k 30.2 20.3% University
31 University College London 394k 29.4 25.9% University
32 Chulalongkorn University 392k 31.7 31.7% University
33 Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design 392k 25.1 47.5% University
34 National Institute of Fashion Technology 369k 29.0 40.1% University
35 Union College 360k 32.1 26.5% University
36 Australian National University 351k 35.1 16.3% University
37 New York University 349k 30.1 22.1% University
38 Imperial College London 320k 27.5 30.5% University
39 Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology 315k 30.9 50.5% University
40 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 314k 28.4 24.7% University
41 University of Birmingham 312k 30.4 28.9% University
42 Gujarat University 308k 33.7 32.0% University
43 University of Melbourne 306k 26.3 29.8% University
44 Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies 302k 28.3 32.6% University
45 Yale University 290k 27.1 24.8% University
46 University of Dhaka 282k 27.7 46.9% University
47 Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education 279k 28.7 37.8% University
48 Princeton University 278k 32.8 25.7% University
49 Purdue University 269k 29.2 24.3% University
50 Manipal University 263k 26.5 23.8% University

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each university by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest university in India?

ESIC currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.9M people in India.

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