Two Indian Institutes Ranked Among Top 50 Asian Universities

Only two Indian institutes are ranked among the Top 50 in the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Ranking 2018, which places the National University of Singapore at the No.1 spot.

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is at the 29th place while the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay has been placed at the 44th spot. Both the educational centers have only 1 per cent international students. Other Indian institutes in top 100 are IIT-Kharagpur, which is at the 60th place, IIT-Roorkee at 65, IIT-Kanpur at 80, and IIT-Delhi at 86.

However, 42 Indian institutes made it to the list of top 350 academic centers in Asia, including Tezpur University (100), IIT-Madras (103), IIT-Guwahati (112), Punjab University (114), National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (126), Jadavpur University (127), Indian School of Mines (141), University of Delhi (144), Aligarh Muslim University (158), Savitribai Phule Pune University (188), and IIT-BHU (194).

“It is a fantastic achievement that India now has 42 universities in the Asia rankings and that the country has improved on 12 of the 13 metrics underlying the rankings,” said Phil Baty, the editorial director of global rankings at Times Higher Education.

“While it has not experienced the same rapid improvement as East Asian nations such as China and while some of its institutions faced declines, India’s overall rise proves that it can make advances year on year,” he said.

Also ranked among the top 300 are Amrita University, Birla Institute of Technology-Pilani, and the University of Calcutta.

While IISc and IIT-Bombay dropped by two places to 29 and 44, IIT-Madras fell from the 41st position in 2017 to 103rd place in 2018. In 2017, only 33 Indian institutes made it to the list.

Meanwhile, Chinese institutions recorded a sharp rise in the rankings, taking five of the top 10 places. Tsinghua University became China’s top ranked university at No.2 on the list while Peking University came at No. 3. The other three in the top 10 are from Hong Kong — University of Hong Kong (4th), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (joint 5th), and Chinese University of Hong Kong (7th).