News: The Times Higher Education has released the World University Rankings 2020.
Facts:
- The Times Higher Education has ranked 1,300 universities from 92 countries.
- The University of Oxford retained the top position for the consecutive fourth year.
- Times has also included 56 Indian institutions into the table this year, making India the fifth most-represented country in the list and the third in Asia (behind Japan and China).
- The Indian Institute of Science(IISc) Bangalore topped the Indian universities on the list.However,its ranking fell from the 251-300 group in 2019 to the 301-350 bracket in 2020.
- Further,this is for the first time since 2012 that an Indian university has not featured in the top 300 of the ranking.
- According to THE,the best Indian institutions are generally characterized by relatively strong scores for teaching environment and industry income, but when it comes to an international outlook they perform poorly.
Additional information:
About TIMES
- Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by the Times Higher Education(THE) magazine.
- The world university rankings are based on marks allotted under areas such as teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook with a maximum of 100 marks in each category and for overall performance.
