Cambridge loses to MIT, India not even on campus

In a world where India and China are vying to become the future-generation super powers, China beats India as far as housing the best universities go. Atleast if the newly published QS University world rankings are anything to go by. According to the QS website, China’s university system grew from 1,022 to 2,263 institutions between 1998 and 2008, and annual enrollment more than quintupled to 5.5 million, an expansion that Yale University president Richard Levin has called “without precedent”. India seems to lead in producing more graduates than China although it does not feature anywhere in the list of the world’s top 200 univesrisities. China now has three universities in the top 20 for international faculty, which tops even  Japan. May be this is because China has put a far greater emphasis on getting its universities up to international standards in recent years, according to QS. [caption id=“attachment_451525” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  India’s education system: Graduates en masse. Agencies[/caption] China’s Peking University ranks number 44 in the chart. It is followed by National Taiwan University at 80 and South Korea’s Yonsei University at 112. The other names on the list that may surprise are Kyushu University, Japan (128), Korea University, South Korea (137), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (140), University of Cape Town (154) and University of Malaysia (156). However, it’s not all bad. Although Indian Universities could not make it to the top 200, the IITs made up for it with their ability to bring out the best talent in R&D. In the QS Asia University rankings,  IIT-Bombay is placed at a comfortable 36. But even, here, India is beaten by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology which leads the pack. The good news is that Delhi University (78) and the University of Mumbai (151) have found a berth in the list. The University of Calcutta also features at 143. In the world rankings Cambridge lost its place as the number one ranking university in the world, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the US university that specialises in science and technology, taking over the top slot. MIT came first, while Cambridge, which topped the list in 2011, came second and Harvard third. The QS table is based on measures of research quality, graduate employability, teaching and how international the faculties and student bodies are.