IISc, IIT-Delhi among QS global list of top 200 universities

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) and the Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi (IIT-D) have made it to the Quacquarelli Symonds' (QS) list of top 200 universities - the first time that any Indian universities have made the list.

IISc and IIT-D have been ranked 147 and 179, respectively, in a list topped by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in the first and second places.

IIT Bombay is ranked 202, IIT Madras 254 and IIT Kanpur 271.

Jawaharlal Nehru University is the highest ranked Indian Arts and Humanities section and is placed 168.

However, prominent institutions like University of Delhi and University of Mumbai have ranked badly in the list.

The top 10 universities include:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a score of 100 points is at the top,
2. Harvard University, (98.7 points),
3. University of Cambridge, UK (98.6 points),
4. Stanford University, (98.6 points),
5. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (97.9 points),
6. University of Oxford, (97.7 points),
7. University College London, (97.2 points),
8. Imperial College London, (96.1 points),
9. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland (95.5 points) and
10. University of Chicago, US (94.6 points). 

Universities of 34 countries are represented in the top 200 institutions even as the US dominate the list with 49 institutions, ahead of the UK (30), the Netherlands (12), Germany (11), Canada, Australia, and Japan (8), China (7), France, Sweden and Hong Kong (5).

IIT-Delhi has improved its position from its previous rank of 235, while IISc Bangalore is a new entry in the ranking list.

The list ranks fourteen Indian institutions in the World University Rankings, and about half of them have made it to top 400, globally.