NEW DELHI: Once again, India has fared very badly in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2014-15, even not making it to the top 200. While California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was listed as the world’s best university,Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, was the best placed Indian university, with a rank in the 276-300 grouping.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and IIT Roorkee were in the rank of 351 - 400 grouping.
According to the rankings, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge were among the top five universities in the world. Among Asian universities, no Indian varsity figured among the top 20. While Indian universities continued their bad run, just nine institutions making it to the top 100 Asian universities compared to last year’s 10. India’s new number one -- the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru- entered the Asian table at 37th place, one notch above last year’s leader Panjab University (38), which this year fell six places.
None of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) made it to the top 50 in Asia. IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Kanpur and Jadavpur University, which had made it to the list of top 100 Asian universities last year, had exited the rankings this time around. The IITs of Roorkee (55), Bombay (57), Delhi (65), Kharagpur (69) and Madras (78), besides Aligarh Muslim University (90) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (96) figure among the top 100, though their rankings have come down from last year.
