India missing from top global universities ranking

Students read admission forms at the Delhi University. Photo: Manpreet Romana/AFP


A ranking of the world’s top 200 universities by one of the world’s foremost educational rankings companies doesn’t have a single university from India.
Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd unveiled its latest ranking of the world’s top universities on Tuesday. Massachussets Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University College of London, Imperial College London, and University of Oxford are the top five universities in its listing for 2013. The first university outside the US and the UK in the listing is at No. 12, ETH Zurich, and the first Asian university at No. 24, National University of Singapore.
India does have a presence in another listing by Quacquarelli Symonds, the top universities in Asia (2013).
Quacquarelli Symonds is expected to release a larger listing of the world’s top 800 universities later Tuesday.
The Hong Kong University of Science and technology tops this listing and the National University of Singapore comes in at No. 2.
There are 11 Indian universities in the list of 200, with three in the top 50. The Indian Institute of technology Delhi is at No 38, The Indian Institute of technology Bombay at No 39, and The Indian Institute of Technology Madras at No. 49. The first non-technology Indian university in the listing is Delhi University at No. 80. Other universities included in the list are, IIT Kanpur (51), IIT Kharagpur (58), IIT Roorkee (66), IIT Guwahati (89), University of Mumbai (140), University of Calcutta (143), and University of Pune (181).
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Quacquarelli Symonds says its methodologies for the two studies are different, based on regional preferences. The nine parameters considered for the Asian survey are: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, citations per paper, papers per faculty, international faculty, international students, inbound exchange students, and outbound exchange students.
photoThe global survey is based on six parameters: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty, and international students. The difference may explain why National University of Singapore is the top Asian university in the global ranking but the second in the Asian one.

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