Only one Indian University enters into top 500 Universities in the World

Updated on: Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Only one Indian university has been named in the top 500 university rankings of the world. Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore IISc has been ranked in top 500. It ranks as low as between 301-400, according to the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

In 2003 and 2004, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore IISc was the India's only entry but its ranking was around 200 which has fallen down. More than 1,200 universities are being ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 universities are published.

Eight universities among the top 10 universities are from the US with two universities being UK , and more than 51 US institutions feature in the top 100.

Harvard University is the number one in the world continuously for the 13th year with the other top 10 universities are Cambridge, Stanford, Berkeley, Chicago, Princeton, Caltech, Columbia, Oxford and MIT.

Only 9 Indian universities make it to Times Asia rankings 20 University of Warwick (92nd) in UK named the Top 100 list for the first time. Totally 11 universities enters into the Top 500 list in 2015, among which Queensland University of Technology in Australia and Sharif University of Technology in Iran make their first appearance.

A recent Thomson Reuters survey had found that at a time when India is being looked as the developed country, just 3.5% of global research output in 2010 was from India. "India has been the sleeping giant of Asia. Research in the university sector, stagnant for at least two decades, is now accelerating but it will be a long to restore India as an Asian knowledge hub," said the report. Not a single young Indian university made it to the list of the world's top 100 which are under 50 years old. Over 800 universities in the world submitted data for analysis of which 20 university were from India. 

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