Not a single Indian university is among the world’s top 200, according to a new global ranking, Indian media reported on Wednesday.
The QS World University Rankings published on Tuesday has miserable news for India’s education system. Around 11 Indian institutes feature in the top 800 of the global list with the highest ranking going to IIT Delhi which is placed 222 in the list.
Two other made it to the top 300—IIT Bombay (233) and IIT Kanpur (295). IIT Madras is ranked 313 while IIT Kharagpur stands at 346.
A close scrutiny on the ranking has more bad news for India. Even though the IITs figure in the list of the world’s top 800 institutes, majority of them have actually fallen in ranking in 2013 as compared to their standing in 2012.
The other Indian institutes to make it to the top 800 list includes IIT Rourkee (401), Delhi University (441), IIT Guwahati and Mumbai University both at (601) with University of Pune and Kolkata at 701.
The rankings say: “In India, five Indian Institutes of Technology are the country’s only representatives in the top 400”.