No show for Indian varsities in World's Top 100

Ipsita Sarkar Gupta | shiksha.com

The Centre for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University released its ranking of tertiary institutions across the globe – the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). And yet again, Indian institutions have failed to reach the mark. Not a single Indian institute or university made it to the near vicinity of the Top 100.

Only one institute – Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore – made it to the list, ranking between 301-400. While the best-ranked universities in the Asia-Pacific region are the University of Tokyo (Rank 21) and Kyoto University (Rank 26) in Japan, and the University of Melbourne (Rank 56) in Australia.

Early this year, both Times Higher Education (TIE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released their global university rankings. And in both the rankings, no Indian university made it to the top spots.

To improve their world rankings, directors of various IITs and NITs are planning to hold talks with ranking organisations and improve their global position. Meanwhile, AICTE has also decided to internationalise CMAT in an effort to improve international rankings.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Rankings 2013: Top 20 universities

Academic Ranking of top 200 World Universities according to subject fields has also been released.  Here’s a look at the top five universities in each stream:

1. Natural Sciences and Mathematics – Harvard, Berkeley, Caltech, Princeton and Cambridge
2. Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences – MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, UT Austin and UIUC
3. Life and Agriculture Sciences – Harvard, Cambridge, MIT, UC San Francisco and Washington (Seattle)
4. Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy – Harvard, UC San Francisco, Washington (Seattle), Johns Hopkins and Columbia
5. Social Sciences – Harvard, Chicago, Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley
6. Mathematics – Princeton, Harvard, Berkeley, Cambridge and Pierre & Marie Curie
7. Physics – Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Caltech and Princeton
8. Chemistry – Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge and ETH Zurich
9. Computer Science – Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton and Harvard
10. Economics/Business – Harvard, Chicago, MIT, Stanford and Berkeley

ARWU adopts six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of Highly Cited Researchers, the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, the number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance, informed a statement.

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