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Only 16 India vars ities make it toB R IC S lis tNE W DE L HI, Dec 4, 2015, dhns :

Only 16 of the 712 Indian univers ities and over36,000 colleges could make it to the lis t of top200 higher educational ins titutions of the B R IC Snations , as the UK ’s rating agency T imes HigherE ducation announced international ranking ofunivers ities for this year here on T hurs day.

T he Indian Ins titute of S cience (IIS c), however, made it debut to internationalranking of the higher educational ins titutions in B raz il, R us s ia, India, C hina andS outh Africa, finding a place among the top twenty ins titutions operating in the fivecountries .

T he T imes Higher E ducation placed the IIS c at 16th pos ition, even as C hinadominated the international ranking lis t with the C hines e higher educationalins titutions occupying firs t and s econd places , half the T op 10 and 39 places inthe T op 200.

T he IIS c has earned the recognition barely a month after it emerged as the firs tIndian ins titute to have made it to the T imes Higher E ducation international rankingof the world’s top 100 engineering and technology ins titutes by s ecuring 99th rankin the lis t.

Apart from IIS c, s even Indian Ins titutes of T echnology (IIT s ) have als o made it tothe lis t of top 200 higher educational ins titutions of the B R IC S nations .

Leading them, the IIT -B ombay has s ecured 29th rank in the lis t while IIT - Madrascould s ecure 36th pos ition, IIT - Delhi 37, IIT -K haragpur 45, IIT -R oorkee 48, IIT -G uwahati 83 and IIT -K anpur 95.

P unjab Univers ity, which was ranked 39 las t year, has s lipped by 82 ranks thistime with the international rating agency placing it at 121 in the lis t of top 200.

K olkata’s J adavpur Univers ity was ranked 80 while S avitribai P hule P uneUnivers ity 127 Univers ity of C alcutta 137, Aligarh Mus lim Univers ity 150, DelhiUnivers ity 154, Amrita Univers ity 181 and Andhra Univers ity 193.

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