Not even a single institute among top 100 global universities ranking by Times Higher Education

Times Higher Education Magazine has recently published 2014 World Reputation Rankings (WRR). In this recent prestigious ranking not even a single Indian University has managed to grab a position among the top 100 and even not in top 200, which is quite shameful.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Bombay, which figured at 130 and 192 places in the ranking last year, failed to grab a place even among the top 200 this year. There are 20 countries represented in world top 100 table and there is not even a single university in the top 100.

In this reputed ranking survey Harvard University has sustain its position and this year too captured the top most position on the Times Higher Education’s world reputation ranking of universities. This year as many as eight top positions have been captured by US universities among the top 10 chart. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford follow to ranked among the top three positions. This time, Cambridge University and Oxford University both are one place down in present ranking, which placed them at fourth and fifth position respectively. The University of California, Berkeley, Princeton, Yale, California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Lost Angeles take the remaining places in the top 10.

Among top 100 universities 46 are from US, where as there is noticeable decline among the number of UK universities ranked in this table. It is alarming sign for UK universities that its popularity is declining among the overseas students.

In the past years, the UK has the second highest number of universities ranked among the top 100. The number of universities has increased a bit compared to last year, but the number is not at par with US universities. There is a giant gap between the total number of US universities and UK universities ranked in the ranking chart. But the Times Higher Education argue, the UK’s overall showing has worsened since 2011, when it had 12 representatives and warns of “polarisation between the ‘golden triangle’ (London, Oxford and Cambridge) and the rest of the UK.”

In this ranking both Imperial College and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) have moved up a place to 13th and 24th respectively while University College London (UCL) has dropped five places to 25th position. The University of Edinburgh remains at 46th place, however the University of Manchester has dropped from 47th place to the band of 51-60 band. The London Business School and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are both new entries in this list. The ranking also highlight a big improvement for Germany which now has six universities represented in the top-100 the third highest representation in the list behind the US and the UK.