31 Indian colleges enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, IISc Bangalore ranked highest
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31 Indian colleges have entered the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-17.Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has climbed to the highest position ever achieved by an Indian institute till date. Though, no Indian institute has yet broken into the top 200, IISc holds a rank in the 201-250 band. The last time around it was in the band of 251-300. Beside IISc, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur and IIT
India has a number of 19 institutions in the top 200, which is 2 more than the last year.
"India has four new entries in the top 800, the country's strong performance is partly thanks to the country recognizing the importance of participating in global benchmarking exercises; just last month the government launched a new funding-backed project aimed at catapulting
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"The government's focus on improving India's standing in global rankings - and even the introduction of the India-specific rankings - has started to yield results. Going forward, there needs to be discussions between ministries to facilitate free flow of students and faculty “Rohin Kapoor, director at
This year Times
Amrita University and Andhra University slipped down to the 801+ group. However, on the brighter side NIT Rourkela, Sri Venkateswara University, TIFR and Tezpur University made their way in the top 800 list.
“This year's expanded list is a testimony to how competitive global
US for the first time in 12 years lost the first rank in the list with
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