No Indian university in Times rankings
Kounteya Sinha
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43 US Univs In Top 100 List; Harvard Ranks 1st
Not a single Indian university is regarded by academics internationally as being among the world's most prestigious, according to the Times Higher Education rankings released on Thursday .The annual list is based on the world's largest invitationonly survey of academics.Times Higher Education distributes the survey in 15 languages to over 10,500 academics in 142 countries.
According to the 2015 list, Harvard in the US is the world's top university followed by UK's University of Cambridge (2nd) and the University of Oxford (3rd), which displaces the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by one rank (4th).
The rest of the top 10 is made up of US institutions: Princeton University (7th), Yale University (8th), California Institute of Technology (9th) and Columbia University (10th). London and Paris are tied for top spot as the world cities with the highest number of top-ranked universities.
Brazil, Russia and China -the other BRIC nations -have at least one top 100 university in the list.
The US dominated the list with 43 universities in the top 100. The UK has the second highest number of representatives in the top 100: 12 (up from 10 last year and nine in 2013).
“It is a matter of concern that a country of India's intellectual history does not have a single university that is regarded by academics globally as being among the world's most prestigious,“ Phil Baty , editor of Times Higher Education Rankings, told TOI in an interview.
For the full report, log on to http:www.times ofindia.com
According to the 2015 list, Harvard in the US is the world's top university followed by UK's University of Cambridge (2nd) and the University of Oxford (3rd), which displaces the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by one rank (4th).
The rest of the top 10 is made up of US institutions: Princeton University (7th), Yale University (8th), California Institute of Technology (9th) and Columbia University (10th). London and Paris are tied for top spot as the world cities with the highest number of top-ranked universities.
Brazil, Russia and China -the other BRIC nations -have at least one top 100 university in the list.
The US dominated the list with 43 universities in the top 100. The UK has the second highest number of representatives in the top 100: 12 (up from 10 last year and nine in 2013).
“It is a matter of concern that a country of India's intellectual history does not have a single university that is regarded by academics globally as being among the world's most prestigious,“ Phil Baty , editor of Times Higher Education Rankings, told TOI in an interview.
For the full report, log on to http:www.times ofindia.com
