The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) raised its position in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 and was the only Indian university in the top 300 list, despite the fact that several IITs boycotted it for the third year in a row, raising concerns. About its parameters and transparency, the agency PTI told.
In 2023, 75 Indian institutions were included in the ranking, up from 56 in 2020 and just 31 in 2017.
Universities ranked lower in the NIRF India Rankings as well as the QS World University Rankings 2023 have raised further questions by surpassing institutions of higher education such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Banaras Hindu University and Aligarh Muslim University in the Times Rankings. About its parameters and transparency.
Times Higher Education (D) and QS
(Quacquarelli Symonds), both based in London, hold two of the world’s most prestigious higher education surveys.
With 75 rated universities, India is the sixth most represented country in the 2023 rankings. Six Indian institutions have started their rankings this year, with Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences scoring the highest (351-400).
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, which was earlier included in the 2020 edition, is back in the 1001-1200 band this year.
“India’s policy leaders fully recognize India’s critical need to join the global knowledge economy network and to ensure that the country’s universities compete, collaborate and establish themselves with the best universities in the world. All this will be critical to realizing India’s full potential as the world’s largest democracy and key to unlocking the full economic power of India’s vast youth population – improving training in high-level skills and acquiring new knowledge Enabling creation and innovation. And the data shows that the policy is succeeding and delivering real change,” Phil Batty, Chief Knowledge Officer, Times Higher Education, told PTI.
While the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc), IITs, NITs, and universities such as JNU, Jamia, and Delhi University have traditionally ranked first among Indian institutions in the majority of global and national rankings, the top technical institutions have been Times Higher since 2000. Absent from education ranking.
Seven IITs – Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee – dropped out of the World University Rankings in 2020, casting doubt on the transparency and standards of the rankings.
The institutes had then said in a joint statement, “Seven IITs will not participate in the rankings this year. If Times Higher Education is able to convince them about the standards and transparency in their ranking process, they will reconsider their decision next year.” “
This year, IIT-Guwahati re-entered the rankings.
In this year’s ranking of Indian colleges, higher education institutions such as IIT-Indore, JNU and AMU are listed below the institutions that were ranked very low in the NIRF rankings.
Oxford University ranks first in the world for the eighth year in a row.
A total of 1,799 universities in 104 countries and territories are ranked, an increase of 137 over the previous year. The number of US colleges represented in the top 100 continues to decline, reaching 43 in 2018 and falling to 34 this year.
“We are not seeing over-representation for India in the rankings, we are seeing an increase in the rankings: the leading institution, the Indian Institute of Science, has risen to make it to the top 300 in the world this year, and now we have nine Indian are the top 600 institutions in the world, up from just six last year,” Bati said.
(with inputs from PTI)
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