Record 63 Indian universities join world ranking; IISc retains top position

Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has retained its place because the highest-rated Indian college whereas the nation recorded the very best ever tally of 63 universities within the Times Higher Education University Ranking 2021 launched on Tuesday. The 63 universities is a rise of 14 from final 12 months.

The University of Oxford retains the highest spot within the rating primarily based on the evaluation of over 1,500 universities’ high quality of instructing, worldwide outlook, analysis, and data switch.

Among the debutant Indian establishments on this 12 months’s rankings, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, King George‘s Medical University (Lucknow), and Mahatma Gandhi University rank highest (601-800 band).

Overall, the IISc (301-350) maintains its position as the highest-ranked Indian university since it first qualified for the rankings in 2015, organisers of the ranking said.

Phil Baty, chief knowledge officer, Times Higher Education said: “The news that India sees a record number of its universities qualify for the rankings is a fantastic accolade for the country. Open only to the best research-led institutions in the world, qualification alone is a huge achievement.”

“But India’s document participation clearly highlights India’s need to compete with the easiest on the world stage. Not solely does participation within the rankings permit universities to be seen to the remainder of the world, but in addition helps to observe their progress in opposition to the worldwide benchmarks in larger schooling.”

This 12 months’s rating, the organisers mentioned, analysed over 86 million citations throughout greater than 13.6 million analysis publications and included survey responses from 22,000 students globally. As many as 1,527 establishments certified to determine within the rankings, a 9% enhance from the final when 1,397 establishments certified.

Baty mentioned India has beforehand suffered from a scarcity of internationalisation inside its establishments. “The recent announcement of the New Education Policy, the first of its kind since 1986, could be a great step in the right direction for India.”

“With proposed comprehensive changes to Indian higher education, such as the approval for foreign universities to open campuses in India, the policy is an incredibly exciting turning point for the country.”