No Indian university figures in the top 200 world slots
The institute, which was ranked 281 in 2011 is now lying at No. 322 in 2014. (Photo: DC/File)
Chennai: The IIT-Madras is in free fall. The slide is clear if the QS world rankings - the 2014 list was released on Tuesday are taken as a reasonable measure of the comparative merits of universities right across the academic world. The institute, which was ranked 281 in 2011 is now lying at No. 322 in 2014. Taking into consideration only the rankings among the IITs in the country, IIT-Madras ranks fourth.
The IIT-Madras is not the only one from India to fare poorly in this year’s rankings. No Indian university figures in the top 200 world slots. IIT Bombay tops the Indian list at 222, followed by IIT Delhi at 235, IIT-Kanpur (300), IIT Madras (322) and IIT-Kharagpur (324).
Asked to comment on possible drop in academic standards, the former Anna University vice-chancellor Prof A.Kalanidhi said it was obvious why none of the Indian universities, including the IITs, failed to make it to the top 200.
“Each IIT gets Rs.400 crore a year but their research output seems to be dismal and there is large mismatch between the grant they get and the innovations they produce,” he said. Lamenting that several university vice-chancellors in the country had no clue about research and innovation, Prof Kalanidhi questioned how these heads would lead their institutions up the rankings.
“We have suffered only a small change in rankings compared to last year. Our student-faculty ratio has got affected because the PhD intake doubled but the faculty recruitment went up only by 10 to 15 per cent” IIT-M director Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi said.
( Source : n. arun kumar )
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