Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is among the top 30 Asian universities in the 2016 Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings.
In fact, this is the first time an Indian university has made it to the top 30, with IISc in 27th place.
Eight Indian institutions are among the top 100 on the list and India has the most institutions overall among the top 200 South Asian universities list of THE.
The other Indian universities in the top half of the ranking include:
- Indian Institutes of Technology, Bombay (43rd)
- Indian Institutes of Technology, Kharagpur (51st)
- Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi (60th)
- Indian Institutes of Technology, Madras (62nd)
- Indian Institutes of Technology, Roorkee (65th)
- Indian Institutes of Technology, Guwahati (joint 80th)
- Jadavpur University (joint 84th)
Also, for the first time Singapore took the first two spots with the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University in first and second place, respectively.
Source: Times of India