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Two more Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) broke the top-50 glass ceiling in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings Asia 2016.
IIT-Madras and IIT-Kanpur jumped 13 and 10 places, respectively, to be ranked among the top 50 universities in Asia by QS, global higher education analysts. Against its rank of 56 in 2015, IIT-Madras was placed at 43 this year, while IIT-Kanpur stood at 48th position in 2016, up from 58 last year.
Other Indian universities in the list are Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore (33), IIT Bombay (35) and IIT-Delhi (36).
Further, two Indian universities debuted in the long list this year: Amrita University (169) and Andhra University (301-350 band). The biggest leap among Indian universities was seen by the University of Delhi and the University of Calcutta. While the former rose by 25 places to 66th rank, the latter jumped 41 places to 108th.
"India's performance as a nation is the fifth best of the 17 countries featured in the rankings. With 23 universities, it is outperformed by Taiwan (34), South Korea (54), Japan (72), and China (82)," QS stated in a press release.
In the overall rankings, the National University of Singapore and the University of Hong Kong retained their first and second positions, respectively.
Other Indian institutions which figure in the rankings are Amrita University (169), University of Pune (176), Amity University (195), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (200) and Anna University (251-300 band). QS had evaluated 920 universities from the Asia region for this year's rankings.
