Last year, the institute was ranked 72nd.

A total of 54 specific subjects were ranked by the QS this year under five broad subject areas that assessed 1,594 institutions from across the globe.

In the engineering and technology category, five programmes, including electrical and electronics (49th rank), computer science (67th rank), mechanical (70th rank), civil (ranked in the bracket 51-100) and chemical engineering (96th rank) featured amongst the top 100 subjects globally under the QS World Ranking.

Some subjects were also ranked among the top two domestically: electrical and electronics (1st), civil and structure (1st), statistics and operations research (1st), computer science & information systems (2nd), chemical (2nd), material science (2nd) and biology sciences (2nd).