Chennai: Saveetha Institute of Medical and technical Sciences has been ranked among the 600 – 800 in the Times Higher Education - World University Ranking of 2022 which was announced.

Saveetha is the third top private university from India.

Times Higher Education’s (THE) latest annual subject rankings include more than 1,600 universities from 99 countries and territories ranked across five areas -- Teaching (the learning environment); Research (volume, income and reputation); Citations (research influence); International outlook (staff, students and research); and Industry income (knowledge transfer).

This year’s ranking, as per official data, analysed more than 108 million citations across over 14.4 million research publications and included survey responses from almost 22,000 scholars globally.

“This is an incredible feast for Saveetha, especially because this is the first ranking which includes pandemic data. Also during this time the institution also published over 115 patents and 3000+ publications for which 100’s publications were specifically focused on COVID and patient management in COVID.” Said Dr Deepak Nallaswamy, Director Academics- Saveetha Institute of Medical and technical Sciences.

“Saveetha had made a tremendous amount of achievements in the areas of research with massive clinical trials including the drug 2G and other newer therapies for the treatment of COVID. Saveetha medical and dental are the only hospitals in India which did not break or block patients throughout the entire pandemic. Both the institution cumulatively treated over 3 lakh patients in the pandemic making it an incredible achievement doing an incredible amount of services to the society. Said Dr N.M. Veeraiyan, Founder & Chancellor, Saveetha Institute of Medical and technical Sciences.

Saveetha Institute of Medical And Technical Sciences (Deemed to be University) is one of India's Leading Education organization and Specialist Centre for Education in various disciplines including Medicine, Dental Surgery, Engineering, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Law, Management, Occupational Therapy, Physical Education, Architecture, Pharmacy, Allied Health Sciences and Liberal Arts and Sciences.