Panjab Univ beats IITs, JNU in varsity rankings in BRICS nations

China leads the rankings

Ten of India's institutes figure in the top 100 list, of the inaugural Times Higher Education BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and Emerging Economies Rankings 2014. 

 

India's neighbour China however, dominates the list claiming four of the top 10 slots and 23 of the top 100. 

 

China's Peking University leads the rankings and Tshingua University is second. Taiwan, the Republic of China, has managed 21 slots.

 

Panjab University leads the Indian tally at the thirteenth slot, ahead of six IITs that figure between 30 and 47 slots. Panjab University's citation record got it the success. Other Indian institutes which figure on the list are Jadavpur University (47), Aligarh Muslim University (50) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (57).

 

Panjab University figured as India's topmost institution in Times Higher Education World University Rankings released this October.

 

The University, a new entrant, was placed at 226 among 400 institutions worldwide. IIT Kharagpur has slipped from 226 to 250 and IIT Roorkee is placed in the 351-400 band. The two other new entrants are IIT Delhi and Kanpur, both in the 351-400 group.

 

On the international front, while Russia has only two institutes on the list, Turkey has notched up three places in the top 10 and seven in the top 100. No institute figures on the list from Pakistan, Indonesia and Philippines. 

 

Times has used 13 Indicators including industry income, innovation, students, teaching, learning environment and citations among others.

BRICS & Emerging Economies Rank 2014	World University Rankings 2013-14 Rank	Institution name
13	226-250	Panjab University
30	351-400	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
34	351-400	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
37	351-400	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
37	351-400	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
46	Not ranked	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
47	Not ranked	Indian Institute of Technology Madras
47	Not ranked	Jadavpur University
50	Not ranked	Aligarh Muslim University
57	Not ranked	Jawaharlal Nehru University

BRICS & Emerging Economies Rank 2014	Institution name	Country
1	Peking University	China
2	Tsinghua University	China
3	University of Cape Town	South Africa
4	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
5	Bo?aziçi University	Turkey
6	University of Science and Technology of China	China
7	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey
8	Fudan University	China
9	Middle East Technical University	Turkey
10	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation
11	University of São Paulo	Brazil
12	Bilkent University	Turkey
13	Panjab University	India
13	Renmin University of China	China
15	University of Witwatersrand	South Africa
16	National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan
17	University of the Andes	Colombia
18	Nanjing University	China
19	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan
20	Koç University	Turkey

For more information on the rankings, visit: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/