(Success Story) IIMs move up in top-100 list
Success Story: IIMs move up in top-100 list
London: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are down seven places from last year in global rankings of the world’s 100 best universities but the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have leapfrogged rivals to climb 24 notches, new research shows.
This is the second year in a row that the IITs have slid further down the global league tables of university excellence, which features traditional Ivy Leaguer Harvard at number one; Cambridge and Oxford in second and third place respectively, MIT and Yale in joint fourth position and Stanford at number five.
The newest Times Higher Education Supplement ranked India’s prized family of technical universities at number 57 of the top 100. But educational experts said this was nothing for India to crow about because the IITs had actually fallen behind other universities, notably Chinese ones and had lost their enviable ranking of 50 on last year’s list. The IITs were ranked number 41 in 2004.
But sources said the gradual slide of the IITs on the global university excellence league tables appeared to be running in tandem with the rise of the IIMs. The new survey places the IIMs at 68, which is 24 notches higher than last year. The IIMs’ new positioning is considered a giant leap considering they were not considered........