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Indian Institutes of Technology team in Dhaka, meeting Bangladeshi students
Posted On Sep 06 2016
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Indian universities continue to lag behind in the global top 200, with Indian Institute of Science dropping five notches to 152 from 147 a year ago and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi at 185 from 179 in 2015, the survey said, Other Indian universities that make 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).
Bangalore is the country’s top varsity, according to the QS World University Rankings 2016-17. The rankings confirmed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in United States as the world’s best for the fifth consecutive year.
The best-ranked institution from India remained Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, even as it lost ranks and dropped out of the top 150.
The ranking of the rest institutes are – IIT Delhi was ranked at 185 place for 2016-17 while it was 179 last year, IIT Bombay at 219 (last year 202), IIT Kanpur 302 (271), IIT Kharagpur 313 (286), IIT Roorkee 399 (391) and IIT Guwahati in the 481-490 band, against 451-460 band last year. The only good news is that IIT Madras has broken into the top 250, climbing up five places.
Only one university from Bangladesh, University of Dhaka, has made it to the latest QS World University Rankings, but that too at a very low rank.
Ben Sowter, head of research at QS Intelligence Unit, attributes the falls to several factors.
The rankings confirmed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in United States as the world’s best for the fifth consecutive year.
Among Asian institutes, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University were ranked 12th and 13th, respectively.
Globally, Massachusetts Institute of Technology held the first position for the fifth consecutive year. It was followed by Stanford University, which ranked 2, and Harvard University at 3.
Seven Indian institutes have been listed in the top 400 educational institutions in the world by a United Kingdom survey which saw Cambridge slipping out of the top three global universities for the first time.
