No Indian university in top 100 global list, Harvard voted best

Kounteya Sinha TNN

London: India has emerged as the only BRIC nation which does not have a single university in the list of world’s top 100.
    Harvard University in the US has topped the annual Times Higher Education (THE) magazine’s 2014 ‘World Reputation Rankings’ released here on Thursday. Harvard is followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University is placed third, the University of Cambridge at fourth, the University of Oxford comes fifth and the University of California, Berkeley sixth.
    Among the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China), mainland China has two, both in the top 50, Russia and Brazil have one each.
    Phil Baty, editor of Times Higher Education Rankings said, “India is the only one of the so-called BRIC nations which does not have a university in the world top 100: So this should be a cause for concern for India. While we only officially rank the world’s top 100 institutions, I can reveal that India is some way off the pace. It’s most prestigious institution, based on the results of our expert global opinion poll, is the Indian Institute of Science — but it sits roughly around the 200th ranking position and has fallen further since last year.”
    Punjab University, alma mater of Indian PM Manmohan Singh, found a place in the unranked section of 226-300. It is followed by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Roorkee, which languish in the lowest grade of 351-400.
(With input from agencies)

Punjab University featured in the unranked section of 226-300. It was followed by IITs in Delhi (above), Kanpur, Kharagpur and Roorkee, which figured in the lowest grade of 351-400 

Source: Times of India dated 7th March 2014 Pg. 20

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