Six IITs and IISc Ranked in Top 400 Colleges of The World

Indian universities continued to lag behind in the global top 200, with IISC dropping five places in ranking.

Seven Indian institutes have been listed in the top 400 educational institutions in the world by a UK survey which saw Cambridge slipping out of the top three global universities for the first time.

According to ‘QS World University Rankings 2016’ survey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held on to the top spot, followed by two other American universities – Stanford at second position and Harvard at third position.

Indian universities continued to lag behind in the global top 200, with Indian Institute of Science dropping five places to 152 from last year’s 147 and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi at 185 from 179 in 2015, the survey said.

Other Indian universities that made the cut within the top 400 on the list are the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) - Bombay (219), Madras (249), Kanpur (302), Kharagpur (313) and Roorkee (399).

This year’s rankings imply that levels of investment are determining who progresses and who regresses. Institutions in countries that provide high levels of targeted funding, whether from endowments or from the public purse, are rising.

Ben Sowter, Head of Research at QS

Experts believe the exact post-Brexit impact on UK universities will become clearer next year as a bulk of the research for this year’s rankings was conducted before Britain voted to leave the European Union on 23 June.

The survey included 916 universities from 81 countries, with 33 countries featuring in the top 200.

The US dominated the rankings, with 48 institutions, ahead of the UK (30), Netherlands (12), Germany (11), Canada, Australia (9), Japan (8), China (7), France, Sweden and Hong Kong (5).

The ‘QS World University Rankings’ are based on four categories: research, teaching, employability and internationalisation.

The methodology consists of six indicators: academic reputation (40 percent), employer’s reputation (10 percent), faculty-student ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 percent), international students (5 percent), and international faculty (5 percent).

(With inputs from PTI)