The Solan-based Shoolini University has been placed at number three in the northern region, comprising Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh, in the internationally recognised Scimago rankings of universities. It has also attained 37th rank nationally.
Among the Indian private universities, the university has topped the region with 16th rank in the category of research across the country. The Scimago institutions rankings are regarded as one of the most objective rankings because experts evaluate universities and scientific organisations based on information from international databases. In subject-wise category, the university has secured first place among Indian universities in chemistry while it has secured the fourth position in environmental science as well as in physics and astronomy and 12th in energy.
The Scimago ranking list includes 4,126 premier higher educational institutions worldwide. As many as 549 Chinese and 511 universities from the United States have made it to institutions rankings.