No Indian varsity found in world top-100

Updated on: Saturday, September 18, 2010

No Indian university finds a place in the top-100 spots in the recently released world university rankings.

The ranking carried out by Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and QS World University Rankings â€” are just out, but none of the Indian varsities have made it to the top 100.

By and large, US dominates all the three rankings, the QS rankings have China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Israel, Taiwan and even Thailand ahead of India with IIT- Bombay in the 187th position. Sorry state is that in the other two rankings, (Times Higher Education World University Rankings and Academic Ranking of World Universities) India finds no place in the top 200.

But at a time when India is being hyped as a future knowledge economy and the country is emerging as the new academic destination globally, isn't international benchmarking in education important for India? B.K Mathur, Dean, planning and co-ordination, IIT Kharagpur, stresses, "It is not ranking but word of mouth that conveys our academic excellence to students. We have 50,000 alumni across the world, they are our ambassadors."

S.K. Barua, Director, IIM-A, stresses that international benchmarking is becoming important and with the world becoming smaller and global student mobility increasing, "we need to realise that if we go up the ranking as a nation, education is going to give us inflow of foreign exchange. Besides, I believe that we have the potential to excel and if we are keen India can become the Mecca of higher education."

However, Jonathan Adams, Director of research evaluation, Thomson Reuters, points out, "Well developed and information-rich rankings can be a helpful guide to students about relative standing of universities worldwide."

No Indian varsity found in world top-100

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