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Global rankings: Only 6 Indian universities feature in top 400

  •   Fri, Mar 02 2018 04:17:11 PM

New Delhi, Mar 2 (Zee News): Six Indian universities turned up in the top 400 in the well-regarded QS World Universities Rankings for 2018. And predictably, five of these six are IITs. The only non-IIT Indian institution in the top 400 is the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru.

IIT-Delhi was the top ranked Indian varsity in the ranking, clocking in at 172. This is an improvement over the ranking of 185 last year. IIT-Bombay (179), IISc (190), IIT-Madras (264), IIT-Kanpur (293) and IIT-Kharagpur (308) were the others on the list.

IIT-Bombay marked the sharpest improvement in the ranking for an Indian university, and rose 40 spots this year. IIT-Kanpur and IIT-Kharagpur made small gains.

Just as sharp as IIT-Bombay's rise was IISc's 38-spot slide down the chart. It had started on the rankings two years ago at 147. IIT-Madras too snapped its two-year rising streak, falling 15 places in 2018. It had risen from 322 in 215 to 249 last year.


The ranking also cemented Delhi's place as the country's arts and humanities capital. All three Indian universities in the top 400 are in Delhi - Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) at 228, Delhi University at 252 and IIT-Delhi at 351.

Indian universities however made a better showing in the ranking for engineering and technology, with ten in the top 400. They are IIT-Delhi (64), IIT-Bombay (68), IIT-Madras (95), IIT-Kharagpur (108), IISc (115), IIT-Kanpur (115), IIT-Roorkee (173), IIT-Guwahati (271), Delhi University (296) and Chennai's Anna University (388).

In business and management education, Indian universities had nine entries in the top 300, with the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) coming out ahead of the other Indians. No Indian institutions in were found good enough to be in the top 100. IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Bombay were ranked between 101 and 150. IIM-Calcutta and IIT-Delhi were placed in 151-200 category, with the Indian School of Business, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Madras and Delhi University were all in the 201-300 bracket.

The QS World University Rankings are an annual affair and usually receive high levels of attention the world over. This year named Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and Harvard University were adjudged the top three best university in the overall ranking.
  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Sat, Mar 03 2018

    Indian education centres are loosing its priority in ensuring quality education because they are concentrating in making more money

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Sat, Mar 03 2018

    The ratings are based on answers provided by the universities to the questions sent by the rating organisation. So far as I know, there is usually no objective analysis by an independent third party.

    Many Universities in the Western world are fully or partly private - and hence have a great desire to provide information to the rating organisation, oftentimes tretching the truth as much as they can.

    Using the same logic, India will have many top-ranking Universities once the tertiary education is all privatised in the country.

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  • Kevin, Mangalore

    Fri, Mar 02 2018

    Indian universities need to emulate the best practices of American and British universities. Private American universities raise money from Alumni, have endowments which are critical source of funding for universities. Indian universities need money to educate the best students and to attract the most talented professors.

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Fri, Mar 02 2018

    Nehru laid the foundation for Indian progress in science and education:
    Nehru was a staunch atheist and a firm believer that technology would be Indias way out of poverty.
    Who came up with the idea of IITs and IIMs?
    Who tried to bring scientists from the Manhattan project back to India appealing to their patriotism?
    Who funded and encouraged organizations like TIFR, ISRO, INCSR and allowed the new age scientists like APJ to take root?
    Who envisioned unification of rivers for the very first time? (flawed, but still)
    Who ran from pillar to post to build Indian steel manufacturing infrastructure?
    Who initiated the start for Department of Science and Technology?
    Who set up the 110 odd engineering colleges with government aid?
    Who wanted the Indian agricultural policy post second 5 year plan as a scientific one?
    Who went to schools and started the tradition of science fairs in India?
    Who made the first deal of defense technology transfer to make a jet aircraft?
    If Nehru don't think about setting IIT in India, even six colleges would have never listed from India in global ranking.
    But only Kashmiri Pandit PM Modi and his BJP never liked to this date.
    Jai Hind

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  • geoffrey, hat hill

    Fri, Mar 02 2018

    DU and GU deserve some special recognition for their miraculous BA/MA schemes for VVVVIPs who become world leaders/best PMs in the world.

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  • prem, moodbidri

    Fri, Mar 02 2018

    God only know... where we Indians placed today, if Kaangress Govt did not set up above mentioned Universities !

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Mar 02 2018

    No university after 2014 ...

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  • Devkumar, Mangalore/New Delhi

    Fri, Mar 02 2018

    Karnataka is hub of educational institutions..not on list. Only good in canteens borrowed concept from madras..amma canteen.

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  • Sheikh, Karkala

    Fri, Mar 02 2018

    Can you read the article properly? ‘Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru.’ Which stands in 3rd.

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  • J N Lobo, Mumbai

    Fri, Mar 02 2018

    I never knew Bangalore(Bangaluru)is not in Karnataka !
    The IISc, Bangalore, is within top 200 world universities,ranked 190.
    Some people write comments without reading the article.

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