IIT-Guwahati Leads India Into World's Top Under-50 Universities

BANGALORE: Indian universities are certainly climbing the limitless ladder as IIT-Guwahati, the only Indian institute, to have made it to the Times Higher Education's Top 100 list of universities that have completed less than 50 years, reports Rediff.

The Times Higher Education along with Thomson Reuters carried out a survey titled 100 Under 50 2014 to find out which are the universities that qualify for the world rankings this year. And going by the results the information revealed that IIT-Guwahati ranked 87th in the world rankings and is the only Indian university to make it to the list this year. The university also shared the position with Portugal's New University of Lisbon and Australia's University of Western Sydney.

"There has been a great deal of soul-searching in India over the fact that none of its universities make the World University Rankings' top 200 - a serious concern given the country's great intellectual history and growing social and economic influence," said Phil Baty, rankings editor at THE magazine.

He further added, "But this new analysis, which examines the next generation of global university stars, should be encouraging. Of the 'BRICS' nations, Russia, mainland China and South Africa do not make the grade, so it is cause for optimism that the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati breaks into the top 100," , reports The Economic Times.

The universities were judged under 13 indicators that include 2 subjective and 11 objective indicators.  However, the 100 under 50 2014 methodology was carefully observed to reflect the special characteristics so that the younger universities were given less weightage to subjective indicators of academic reputation. Some of the other universities couldn’t  make it to the list as they did not follow certain procedures such as teaching undergraduates; they taught only a single narrow subject; or their research output amounted to fewer than 1,000 articles between 2007 and 2011 (200 a year).
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