Poorer show by Indian institutions in QS World University Rankings
Manash Pratim Gohain & Hemali Chhapia TNN
11.06.2020
NewDelhi: Indian universities made a poorer show at the QS World University Rankings, 2021 with majority of the topranked institutions dropping in their rankings and just four universities in Top 300 as against six last year.
Though IIT-Bombay retained its position as the topranked Indian institution, it too dropped from 152 to 172nd position this year. All the government-run institutions accorded with the Institution of Eminence (IoE) tag, slipped down.
Among the top five Indian universities — IIT-Bombay, IISc-Bangalore, IIT-Delhi, IITMadras and IIT-Kharagpur — the IITs at Kharagpur and Kanpur have fallen out of the Top 300 list. Delhi University, an IoE, falls out of the Top 500 list. This year, 21Indian universities are in Top 1000 as against 24 last year. There is no Indian private university in the Top 650 list.
IIT-Delhi director, Prof V Ramgopal Rao, said, “The character of our institutions is different. Also, it is a marathon we are running, not a 100 metre race.” He said perception-based scores by these agencies are open to a lot of fallacies and other considerations. “We have all had issues with this.” “This is a very dicey and non-transparent metric. International reputation needs an altogether different strategy. We need a global campaign for education like we did ‘Incredible India’ for tourism. In the case of Delhi, at least 200 new recruitments have been made in last few years. Our citations per faculty score have gone down a bit this year because it takes time for new faculty to become productive in our system,” said Rao.
Earlier this year, leading IITs — Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee — decided not to participate in any of the Times Higher Education (THE) — World University Rankings, citing lack of transparency in the methodology of ranking process.
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