IISc Bangalore marks India's debut in top 100

IISc Bangalore was at the 99th spot

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India has made its debut in the Top 100 universities ranking in engineering and technology, published by The Times Higher Education, a weekly magazine based in London.

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was at the 99th spot. The Top 10 remains dominated by American institutions, with Stanford, CalTech and MIT the top three.

However, this is a year of Asian progress, with the US holding 31 positions, down from 34 last year, while Asia holds 25 positions in the Top 100, up from 18 last year. Asian universities have six positions in the Top 30 this year. Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan and India all improved their representation (India had none till now), while Singapore and Hong Kong maintained theirs.

Phil Baty, editor, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, said: "This year's standout success story has to be India, making its debut in this prestigious engineering and technology ranking, which represents the top few per cent of world universities for these subject disciplines."

Whether you look at high-tech sectors such as information technology or aerospace engineering or more traditional fields such as steelmaking, he said, India's engineering and technology prowess was highly visible the world over, in the shape of companies based in India or run by people born in India, such as Google and Microsoft, Infosys and Wipro or Tata and Mittal.