No Indian University in world’s top 100 universities, Harvard tops the list

London: India’s struggle to break into the list of world’s top 100 universities continued as the higher education institutions from the country yet again failed to impress academics across the world. Harvard University in the US has yet again topped the annual Times Higher Education magazine’s 2014 ‘World Reputation Rankings’ released here on Thursday.

Harvard is followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University is placed third, the University of Cambridge at fourth, the University of Oxford comes fifth and the University of California, Berkeley sixth.

The list, based on a largest invitation-only survey of senior academics, saw conspicuous absence of Indian varsities. “India is the only one of the so-called BRIC [Brazil, Russia, India and China] nations those large, exciting developing economic powers which does not have a university in the world top 100.

Mainland China has two, both in the top 50, Russia and Brazil have one each - this should be a cause for concern for India,” said Phil Baty, editor of the rankings. “While we only officially rank the world’s top 100 institutions, I can reveal that India is some way off the pace roughly around the 200th position,” he said. Punjab University found a place in the unranked section of 226-300.