Indian Universities Fail to Secure Place in Global Top 50: Cause of Concern?
It is a matter of concern that no Indian University secures place in the global top 50. President Droupadi Murmu shares concerns.
Indian Universities Fail to Secure Place in Global Top 50: Being one of the oldest countries known for its teachings and knowledge, Indian Universities have failed to secure place in the global top 50 best universities list. Addressing the issue, President Droupadi Murmu shared her concers regarding the same during 69th convocation of IIT Kharagpur.
Murmu stated that "Not even a single educational institution in such a vast country with the world's oldest knowledge tradition is amongst the top 50 educational institutions of the world. We need to think about it. The race for ranking is not more important than a good education. But good ranking not only attracts students and good faculty from all over the world but also enhances the reputation of the country."
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 include 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.
The World University Rankings 2023 are formulated based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an university's performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The list of top 50 Universities are given in the table below.
| Rankings | Universities |
| 1 | University of Oxford |
| 2 | Harvard University |
| 3 | University of Cambridge |
| 4 | Stanford University |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 6 | California Institute of Technology |
| 7 | Princeton University |
| 8 | University of California, Berkeley |
| 9 | Yale University |
| 10 | Imperial College London |
| 11 | Columbia University |
| 12 | ETH Zurich |
| 13 | The University of Chicago |
| 14 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 15 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 16 | Tsinghua University |
| 17 | Peking University |
| 18 | University of Toronto |
| 19 | National University of Singapore |
| 20 | Cornell University |
| 21 | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 22 | UCL |
| 23 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 24 | New York University |
| 25 | Duke University |
| 26 | Northwestern University |
| 27 | University of Washington |
| 28 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 29 | University of Edinburgh |
| 30 | Technical University of Munich |
| 31 | University of Hong Kong |
| 32 | University of California, San Diego |
| 33 | LMU Munich |
| 34 | University of Melbourne |
| 35 | King’s College London |
| 36 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 37 | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 38 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 39 | The University of Tokyo |
| 40 | University of British Columbia |
| 41 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| 42 | KU Leuven |
| 43 | Universität Heidelberg |
| 44 | Monash University |
| 45 | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 46 | McGill University |
| 47 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris |
| 48 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 49 | Karolinska Institute |
| 50 | University of Texas at Austin |
Small universities from Belgium and Hong Kong have made it to the list. It is an alaraming sign for Indian Universities says Mumru. Collaborations with institutions like ISRO, DRDO, and ONGC, and others will improve the University's performance. Old universities of India must actively take part in mapping their universities in the global top universities from coming years.
