Times Higher Education Rankings are the world's largest invitation and only survey of academicians. The survey is carried in 15 languages to over 10,500 academicians and 142 countries. The Times Higher Education Rankings were released On Thursday.
And even with the remarkable intellectual history the county possesses, not a single Indian university has been regarded by academicians as being among the world's most prestigious.
The top talents in the country must be held on for the country's development and to prevent brain drain highly skilled leaders must be developed and investment must be attracted. India should support its leading institutions as even the best performing institutes like the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) - they have a powerful reputation across the world have not received adequate nominations make it to the Top 100 in the rankings.
Phil Baty, editor of Times Higher Education Rankings told that the countries of Brazil, Russia and China - the other great BRIC nations, have managed at least one top 100 university in this list".
He also added that it is possible that most academicians are not aware of the Indian Institutes as the survey based on UN data is representative at a local and global level.
Another reason can be that the Indian Institutions fail to attract the international students and staff. Collaboration with overseas universities and publishing some research papers in the global language-English also supports, but the Indian institutions fail to do that.
These factors influence the reputation of the university and hence by improving the international outlook the Indian Institutions can develop to share best practice on a global level and attract students from all over the world.
This advances their name in the global academic community.
However the only way to improve the rankings in world reputation rankings is by ensure that the scholars across the world recognise the Indian Institutes as an excellent teaching and research institution.
The golden triangle' of London, Oxford and Cambridge Universities continued to be rank highly.
The places with the highest number of universities of the top ranked universities are London and Paris
With 43 universities US dominates the list of Top 100 with and UK stands second highest number of representatives in the top 100.
UK has 12 universities in the top 100.
The ranks are as follows
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Rank
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University
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I
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Harvard University
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II
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University of Cambridge
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III
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University of Oxford
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IV
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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V
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Stanford University
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VI
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University of California, Berkley
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VII
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Princeton University
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VIII
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Yale University
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IX
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California Institute of Technology
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X
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Columbia University
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Some other universities that have been list the Top 100 are Imperial College, London with the 14th Rank, and University College London with 17th Rank, London School of Economics and Political Science with 22nd Rank
The King's College London has jumped 12 places from 43rd to 31st. King is the rising stars of the ranking as it has moved up from the 61-70 band in 2013.
The London Business School has been ranked 91-00.
Two new universities that have attained ranks in the Top 100 are Warwick and Durham universities both from the UK.
The survey was voted by the leading scholars around the world last month based entirely on academic opinion. The scholars named the institutions strongest in teaching and research and nominated a maximum of 10 institutions. Over 10,000 responses were received. There were 15.8% responses from the US, 10.6% responses from China, 7.2 % responses from Japan followed by 5.6% responses from the UK and 5.5% from Russia.
The academicians invited to take part must have an average on 15 years in higher education and must be published in a leading academic journal.
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