IIT-Delhi, IIT-Bombay in world’s top 200 institutes list

October 10, 2008 : The Indian Express

The only two Indian institutes that have notched a place amongst the top 200 universities ranked by the Times Higher Education-QS World University Ranking survey for 2008 are IIT-Delhi and IIT-Bombay. The institutes havebeen ranked 154 and 174 respectively in a list topped by Harvard University of US. The ranking survey was published this week.

The two institutes had been the only Indian institutes on the top 400 list put out by the survey last year. IIT-Delhi had stood at the 254th position in 2007 while IIT-Bombay was at 269. The rankings have improved this year.

While no Indian university could make a mark on the international rankings largely dominated by UK and US-based varsities, as many as nine Asian institutes are among the top 50 institutes, including three based in Hong Kong.

China has as many as five universities in the top 200, with Peking University placed at 50 and Tsinghua University at 56. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Seoul National University are the two new entrants into the list this year.

Harvard Universits followed by Yale, while the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in UK were placed third and fourth respectively. Britain, meanwhile, has 17 of its universities in the top 100, down from 19 last year. It has a total of 29 universities in the top 200, one less than last year.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/IIT-Delhi–IIT-Bombay-in-world-s-top-200-institutes-list/371469