Two of India’s top academic institutions have finally made it into league of the top 200 universities in the world.
IIT-Bombay, -Delhi among world’s top institutions
LONDON: Two of India’s top academic institutions have finally made it into league of the top 200 universities in the world.
The annual rankings are produced by the prestigious Times Higher Education-QS and this year The Indian Institutes of Technology Delhi and Bombay have managed to get into the top 200.
IIT Delhi has made the most staggering leap in the entire league table by jumping from its position last year at 307 to 154, making it the top academic institution in India. IIT Bombay also made a massive jump to rank 174 from 269 last year.
The top position is still held by the American university Harvard for the fifth
consecutive year, while Yale, its rival in the Ivy league has been ranked at number two. Britain’s top universities Cambridge and Oxford have dropped to third and
fourth respectively this year, down from being a joint second with Yale last year.
American institutions continue to dominate the list with six of them in the top ten. Imperial College London and University College London are the other two universities that make up Britain’s four in the top ten. More than a third of the top 100 are based in the USA.
Vice-chancellors of British universities voiced concern that without an increase in investment, Britain’s standing as a first-class destination for higher education could be under threat.
“The table reflects the growing strength of our major competitors - particularly the US institutions - which benefit from much higher levels of investments than UK universities,” said Wendy Piatt, director-general of the Russell Group of leading universities.
“China already looks set to overtake the UK very soon in terms of total research publications and its universities have been steadily climbing up the international league tables,” added Piatt.
The rise of Asian institutions is reflected in the inclusion of nine of them within the top 50, including three based in Hong Kong. A spokesman for Quacquarelli Symonds, which conducted the research, said that its findings also reflected the higher profile of technology-based universities.
The presence of IITs
Delhi and Bombay in the top 200 is reflection of this, as is the rise of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from number 53 to 39 this year.
The ranking - now in their fifth year – are based on surveys of academics and graduate employers about which they consider the best universities in their fields, the ratio of students to academics, the proportion of overseas students and staff at each university and the number of times research by each university’s academics is quoted in other journals.
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