The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021 has been declared and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has secured 94th position. It is the only Indian institute to acquire a spot in the top hundred universities across the world in the engineering (Computer Science) stream.
The University of Oxford for a fifth consecutive year has topped in the ranking, whereas Stanford University stood at second and Harvard University at third position.
China’s Tsinghua University evolved as the first Asian university to crack a place in the top 20 under the current methodology. The first three rankings were conferred to US universities in the higher education category. The selection was done across a variety of subjects in the broad category. Nine institutes out of 10 in THE World University rankings 2021 are from the United States.
The United Kingdom’s Cambridge University has bagged the 6th spot.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore got a place in the 301-400 bracket in the engineering stream. THE World University Rankings does not assign individual ranks beyond 200, but places institutions in brackets instead.
Jamia Millia Islamia and Thapar University are in the 401-500 bracket. Maintaining it's position in the global rankings, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), New Delhi rank has also improved among Indian Institutions.
The only two Indian institutions in Arts and Humanities category to make a place in the list of global rankings are Jawaharlal Nehru University (401-500) and University of Delhi (500+).
Banaras Hindu University and Jawaharlal Nehru University have attained a spot in the 501-600 bracket in the social science stream. Among a total of nine Indian universities BHU and JNU are the one to be listed in THE World University Rankings.
Seven other universities getting a rank are - Aligarh Muslim University, Amity University, University of Delhi, University of Calcutta, JMI, University of Mumbai and Punjab University.
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The latest annual subject rankings include a total of 1,512 universities from 93 countries and regions ranked across 11 subject areas. This year’s ranking was based after analysing more than 80 million sources across over 13 million research publications and included survey responses from 22,000 scholars globally.
THE World University Rankings 2021 assess universities on the following parameters:- Teaching (30%), Research (30%), Citations (30%), Industry Income (2.5%) and International Outlook (7.5%).