New Delhi: The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2014-15 has listed California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as the world’s best university. Once again, India doesn’t make it—even to the top 200.

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, was the best placed Indian university, with a rank in the 276-300 grouping. In fact, no Indian varsity figured in the list of the top 20 Asian universities.

Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge were among the top five universities in the world, according to the rankings.

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Among Asian universities, China has overtaken Japan as the continent’s higher education powerhouse. While Japan’s University of Tokyo is the highest placed varsity in Asia ranking, it has lost ground overall.

Indian universities continued their bad run, with just nine institutions making it to the top 100 Asian universities compared with last year’s 10. India’s new number one—the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru—entered the Asian table at 37th place, one notch above last year’s leader Panjab University (38), which this year fell six places.

None of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) made it to the top 50 in Asia.

Japan has 19 universities in the prestigious top 100 in Asia, down from 20 last year and 22 in 2013, and 15 of those slipped down the list by an average of 5.8 places. By contrast, China now has 21 representatives, up from 18 last year and 15 in 2013, and many of these are rising up the table.

Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea have three universities each in the Asian top 20 list along with two universities from China and two from Turkey.

Phil Baty, editor of Times Higher Education Rankings, said in a press statement, “It is a cause of concern for India that it has lost ground. It has fewer representatives this year and most of those that made it have fallen down the list."

He said it was “worrying" that IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Kanpur and Jadavpur University, which had made it to the list of top 100 Asian universities last year, had exited the rankings this time around.

The IITs of Roorkee (55), Bombay (57), Delhi (65), Kharagpur (69) and Madras (78), besides Aligarh Muslim University (90) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (96) figure among the top 100, though their rankings have come down from last year.

View the full Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2014-2015 list here

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