No Indian educational institution in global list of top 300 universities

Chennai: There may be several top class universities in the country but not even a single institute from India figures in the top 300 overall ranks in the global rankings released recently by Centre for World University Rankings.

Ranked globally at 341, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi topped the list of Indian institutions, followed by University of Delhi (379), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru (448), Panjab University (491), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras (534), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay (596), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (601), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Khargapur (614), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Roorkee (638) and Banaras Hindu University (679).

On the patents front, IIT-Bombay leads in bagging the 176th global rank, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, comes next at 239, followed by IIT-Madras at 317.

Asked about the disappointing rankings, IIT-Kanpur chairman Prof M. Anandakrishnan said global ranking agencies include universities started 500-600 years ago abroad, which have billions of dollars as their resource and endowments while the Indian counterparts have no big funds. “It is not right to compare foreign universities which neither have any government control nor any legislation, with the Indian ones that are under government control and don’t have any big autonomy,” he said.