Indian Institute of Science Bangalore is the premier institute in the country when it comes to research and innovation by students.

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This is according to the list prepared by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

IISc was also the first Indian institute to feature on Times Higher Education World University Rankings for engineering and technology in the year 2015-16 with a ranking of 99.

IISc was followed by IIT Kharagpur at second position in the list with impressive performances in the number of research publications and advance research.

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Four other IITs also feature in the list.

Other institutes which made it to the top-10 are Delhi University, Jadavpur University, Anna University and Banaras Hindu University.

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The rankings report has been drawn up based on findings by the Elsevier Scopus data, also globally accepted while considering achievements of Indian institutions for world rankings.