The Times Higher
Education (THE) World University Rankings 2012-13 has ranked three Indian
institutions in the list of top 400 universities across the globe. The three
institutions are Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) namely IIT Bombay, IIT
Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee. Last year, IIT Bombay was the only one institution
from India that was able to make it to the list.
THE World ranking
is regarded among the best ranking systems in the world and the data is
collected and analysed by Thomson Reuters. Though none of the Indian higher
education institutions were able to make it to the top 200 in the rankings of
2012-13 but this year IIT Kharagpur stands at 234 rank. However, previous
year’s ranking it was nowhere in the top 400. IIT Bombay has jumped 60 positions
and has been ranked at 258 registering considerable improvement from last
year’s rank at 317. IIT Roorkee, which is ranked at 367 in the world, was
nowhere in the list of top 400 institutions last year.
Times Higher
Education World University Rankings judges universities on parameters such as
teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook based on 13
calibrated performance indicators. Teaching and learning environment gets 30
per cent while Research in terms of volume, income and reputation also counts
for 30 per cent and Citations in terms of research influence is worth 30 per
cent of the overall ranking score. On the other hand industry income by
innovation is worth 2.5 per cent and international outlook of the university
which includes staff, students and research gets 7.5 per cent weight age.
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