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8 Indian institutes including 6 IITs in top 100 in THE’s Asia University Rankings

04:04 PM Jun 04, 2020 | Team Udayavani |

Eight Indian institutes, including six IITs, were listed among the top 100 in Times Higher Education’s (THE) Asia University Rankings 2020.

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Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru was ranked the best Indian university with Asian rank of 36 and IIT Indore bagged the 55th position.

IIT Ropar was ranked 47 among all top varsities in the continent. Also, IIT Delhi climbed 24 places this year to be placed at 67th rank and IIT Kharagpur climbed 17 positions to get an Asia rank of 59.

The Indian Institute of Science dropped seven places from the 2019 ranking and is ranked 36th.

Sources claim, the universities are ranked by performance in five areas which is teaching, research, citations, international outlook, and industry income.

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Phil Baty, chief knowledge officer of THE, said, “Both regionally and globally, it is clear that India’s higher education system has a lot to shout about. The positive improvements seen by some of India’s older institutions in this year’s THE Asia Rankings should be embraced, a positive story that demonstrates a continued and growing ability to compete among the world’s very best”

Also, According to the Asia ranking report, many IITs, are making general improvements across teaching, research and industry metrics compared to 2019

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