India only BRICS country with no institute in worlds top 200

In 2010,IIT-Bombay was ranked 187,but dropped to 225 last year. This year it is down to 227.

India remains the only BRICS nation without a university in the top 200. Two of the leading three institutions,IIT- Delhi 212 and IIT-Kanpur 278,have improved on their 2011 positions. Yet the comparison with other BRICS nations remains unflattering, writes Danny Byrne,editor of topuniversities.com the QS rankings website.

Among the top 10 institutes are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in first place,followed by the University of Cambridge,Harvard University,University College London UCL,University of Oxford,Imperial College London,Yale University,University of Chicago,Princeton University and California Institute of Technology Caltech in that order.

From Asia,those in the top 50 include University of Hong Kong 23,National University of Singapore 25,University of Tokyo 30,Kyoto University 35,Seoul National University 37,Chinese University of Hong Kong 40,Chinas Peking University 44,Singapores Nanyang Technological University 47,Chinas Tsinghua University 48 and Japans Osaka University 50.

China has seven institutes in the top 200 list.

Even in the Asia rankings,which is topped by the Hong Kong University of Science amp; Technology,India has just 11 institutes in the top 300 while China,Singapore and South Korea continue to surge ahead. Nine Chinese institutes have moved up the ranks with Peking University ranking better than the University of Tokyo.

We see India once again under-performing,with only 11 universities in the rankings,the vast majority of which are various Indian Institutes of Technology. Internationalisation has been identified as a key issue, says a QS analysis of the Asian rankings.

The discipline-wise rankings present a slightly better picture with the IITs ranking among the top 50 engineering institutes. Delhi University too finds a place in the top 50 universities offering English Literature and Linguistics among others.