In the recently released World University Rankings 2024 by Times Higher Education (THE), the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has emerged as the leading university in India by securing a position in the world’s top 250. However, no Indian university is featured in the top 200.
Highlights:
- The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has claimed the highest position among Indian universities, securing the 201-250th spot in THE World University Rankings 2024.
- India has made a notable presence in the rankings, with a total of 91 universities featured in THE World University Rankings 2024. That’s an increase from 75 last year. On the other hand, no Indian university is featured in the top 200. China has 13, Japan has 5, Singapore has 2 and South Korea has 6 universities in the top 200.
- In the world, the US holds the first position with 169 universities, followed by Japan with 119 and the UK with 104. In Asia, Japan holds the first position with 119 universities, followed by India with 91 and China with 86 universities. India secures the fourth position in terms of the number of universities featured in the rankings, with 91 universities listed.
- Since 2020, top IITs have boycotted the THE World University Rankings over issues of transparency after none of them were ranked among the world’s top 300 institutions. In 2023, THE World University introduced specific changes in the performance parameters to address the former’s concerns. However, in this year’s rankings, all the top IITs are missing. They may participate next year.
- The one major reason for our universities not breaking into the top 200 is that our top institutions are very much domain specific and smaller. For example, AIIMSs are specialized medical institutes, IITs/NITs are engineering institutes, IIMs are management institutes, IISc./IISERs are science institutes, NLUs are law institutes etc. However, Caltech like smaller institute is an example to counter this argument.
