Five other IITs are placed between 200-400th positions in the rankings. The University of Pretoria has been demoted from the 501-550 to the 551-600 category.
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“We, however, note with concern the consistent drop across the board in the rankings of some of the top South African universities”.
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the world’s top university for the fifth year.
“We are happy that these efforts have been recognised by our ranking among the world’s top universities, and Asia’s best”.
Among Asian institutes, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University were ranked 12th and 13th, respectively. Cambridge, which was ranked a joint third with Harvard a year ago, slips to fourth with British competitor Oxford retaining its sixth rank.
The consistent drops within Western European institutions, particularly the United Kingdom and Germany saw the University of Cambridge down to fourth placing.
This year’s QS ranking have shown that only the universities which invested into the quality of education and research reserved their position, as mentioned by the Head of Research at QS Ben Sowter. That’s a dramatic fall from 2012 when the university was ranked number 131.
The University of Otago has risen four places in a poll ranking the world’s top universities.
Most of the UKs prominent universities have also slipped down the table.
“This year’s rankings indicate that targeted long-term investment in higher education, whether from private endowments or the public purse, is paying dividends”, said Sowter. Analysts look at academic reputation, faculty-to-student ratio, employer reputation, research publication citations per faculty, worldwide students and global faculty.
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President and Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell said: “This ranking, alongside the recent Shanghai rankings, shows that Manchester is on an upward trajectory. Conversely, Western European nations making or proposing cuts to public research spending lose ground to their U.S. and Asian counterparts”.
