In the 'Times Higher Education Emerging Economies Ranking 2020', IIT-KGP has been ranked as the second best institute among the Indian Higher Education Institutes.
Among the global institutes, it has been ranked as 32nd best as opposed to 55th from the last year. On the rise in the ranking, IIT KGP Director Prof V K Tewari said, "In the recent past, we have taken measures to maintain a globally competitive faculty-student ratio while ensuring best-in-class quality."
Jadavpur University in Kolkata has bee ranked as third best among the state-run universities in the country and is first among the universities in the Eastern region. No other university from the eastern region has been able to make the cut. A JU professor said, “the institute has always got higher berths in different rankings due to its high academic standards in the domain of scientific research and excellence in different fields.”
A total of 56 Indian universities appear in the full ranking of a total of 533 universities across emerging economies of the world. Eleven institutes of India featured in the top-100 list.
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