Indian Institutions Placed Among Top 200 Universities

Four leading Indian educational institutions have found their place in a list of world’s top 200 universities, while Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford remain the top three, reports the New Straits Times.

The four in the top echelons are the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Delhi University (DU).

Quoting the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported that the IITs ranked 57th in the world’s top 200 universities list and the IIMs came 68th. The JNU is 183rd in the list.

In the list of top technology universities, IITs jumps to third place after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, Berkeley.

Among the world’s top 100 science universities, IITs rank 33rd.

In the ranking for the world’s top universities in arts and humanities, Delhi University took 75th place.

In the list for social sciences it figures at 86. In this list, Delhi University is upstaged by IIMs at 26 and JNU at 57.

Both IITs and JNU figure in the list for the world’s top universities for biomedicine, at ranks 70 and 99 respectively.

In the overall rankings, Harvard University continued its reign at the top and Imperial College London is the only newcomer in the top 10. Cambridge and Oxford moved up to second and third place after displacing MIT, which is now ranked fourth.

In the world ranking for top 50 universities outside the US and Britain, the list features the IITs (15th rank), IIMs (19) and JNU (47).

There are 29 British universities in the top 200 — six more than last year.

The university rankings are based on a survey of 3,703 academics worldwide. They were asked to nominate up to 30 institutions they regarded as the best at research in their own fields. On that measure, Cambridge came top, followed by Oxford and then Harvard.

***** Looks like varsities of many other countries are moving ahead and into the top slots except ........ (If nombor 500 pun boleh lah bradder! Meritokrasi is for monkeys. Semuanya masih OK!)

Incidentally among the Asian varsities in the top 50, we have Peking University - 14th, National University of Singapore and University of Tokyo - 19th, Tsing Hua University - 28th, Kyoto University - 29th, University of Hong Kong - 33rd and Chinese University of Hong Kong - 50th. Our very own UKM is at 185th and University of Malaya - 192.
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