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IITs shine in world university rankings
LONDON: IIT Delhi's electrical engineering department has been ranked the 37th best globally, the highest entry from India across all categories in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university rankings.
QS is a reputed British education and career advice company, which earlier produced the rankings with the Times Higher Education. Since 2010, it has been producing them on its own.
The IIT Bombay's civil engineering department has been ranked 39th, while IIT Delhi's mechanical and aeronautical engineering has been positioned 43rd. Indian Institute of Science ranks 50th in materials science.
IITs have come as the only saving grace for Indian universities, which have taken a massive beating in the rankings released on Wednesday. Not a single university or department has made it to the top 200 altogether in 12 of the 30 disciplines covered in the rankings.
Important subjects without a single top-200 Indian institution include medicine, law, economics and education.
The best performances from Indian universities came in engineering as expected.
IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras are all ranked in the global top 50 in at least one of the four areas of engineering: civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical.
Delhi University and JNU have made it to the top 100 in the world for English literature, while the only other Indian entry in this category are Jadavpur University and University of Kolkata both of which are among the top 151-200.
IIT Bombay's linguistic department is the only that made it in this category among the top 200.
Chinese universities on the other hand have achieved 37 top-50 rankings in 23 subjects, compared to just four for India.
"These rankings reflect the progress made by the IITs in recent years in engineering, but in many other areas of the academic spectrum India is lagging way behind its international competitors," said QS head of research Ben Sowter.
"India faces numerous challenges as it attempts to expand participation and increase university funding. These rankings make it clear that it is some way off achieving a truly internationally competitive higher education system."
Covering 30 subjects, the QS rankings by subject are the largest of its kind.
The US and UK universities dominate the list, with Harvard ranking number one in 10 subjects, ahead of MIT (7), University of Oxford (4), UC Berkeley (4), University of Cambridge (3), Imperial College London (1) and UC Davis (1).
India's struggles are in contrast to the strong performance of leading universities elsewhere in Asia, with institutions including National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, Kyoto University Hong Kong University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology making it to the global top 10 in several disciplines.
IITs shine in world university rankings - The Times of India
LONDON: IIT Delhi's electrical engineering department has been ranked the 37th best globally, the highest entry from India across all categories in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university rankings.
QS is a reputed British education and career advice company, which earlier produced the rankings with the Times Higher Education. Since 2010, it has been producing them on its own.
The IIT Bombay's civil engineering department has been ranked 39th, while IIT Delhi's mechanical and aeronautical engineering has been positioned 43rd. Indian Institute of Science ranks 50th in materials science.
IITs have come as the only saving grace for Indian universities, which have taken a massive beating in the rankings released on Wednesday. Not a single university or department has made it to the top 200 altogether in 12 of the 30 disciplines covered in the rankings.
Important subjects without a single top-200 Indian institution include medicine, law, economics and education.
The best performances from Indian universities came in engineering as expected.
IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras are all ranked in the global top 50 in at least one of the four areas of engineering: civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical.
Delhi University and JNU have made it to the top 100 in the world for English literature, while the only other Indian entry in this category are Jadavpur University and University of Kolkata both of which are among the top 151-200.
IIT Bombay's linguistic department is the only that made it in this category among the top 200.
Chinese universities on the other hand have achieved 37 top-50 rankings in 23 subjects, compared to just four for India.
"These rankings reflect the progress made by the IITs in recent years in engineering, but in many other areas of the academic spectrum India is lagging way behind its international competitors," said QS head of research Ben Sowter.
"India faces numerous challenges as it attempts to expand participation and increase university funding. These rankings make it clear that it is some way off achieving a truly internationally competitive higher education system."
Covering 30 subjects, the QS rankings by subject are the largest of its kind.
The US and UK universities dominate the list, with Harvard ranking number one in 10 subjects, ahead of MIT (7), University of Oxford (4), UC Berkeley (4), University of Cambridge (3), Imperial College London (1) and UC Davis (1).
India's struggles are in contrast to the strong performance of leading universities elsewhere in Asia, with institutions including National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, Kyoto University Hong Kong University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology making it to the global top 10 in several disciplines.
IITs shine in world university rankings - The Times of India
