Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and four IITs — Mumbai, Delhi, Madras and Kanpur — figure in the list of Asia’s top 50 universities, as per the QS Unive-rsity Rankings for 2016.
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and four IITs — Mumbai, Delhi, Madras and Kanpur — figure in the list of Asia’s top 50 universities, as per the QS Unive-rsity Rankings for 2016.
IISc, which is placed 33rd this year, had emerged as the top Indian institute last year as well when it was ranked 34th.
IIT-Mumbai has been ranked 35th, closely followed by IIT-Delhi (36th), IIT-Madras (43rd) and IIT-Kanpur (48th). IIT-Kharagpur was placed 51st and two other IITs — Roorkee (78) and Guwahati (94) — made it to the top 100.
Delhi University (DU), which had got 91st position last year, has jumped several steps and was ranked 66th. University of Calcutta was ranked 108th, a big jump from 149th last year, University of Mumbai 145th, while Banaras Hindu University is placed at 155th position. Panjab University is in the 251 to 300 bracket.
Overall, like last year, National University of Singapore (NUS) has been ranked the best university in Asia, followed by University of Hong Kong.
