Indian higher education institutions are certain to enter the top 100 in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings in a couple of years, India head of the ranking agency Ashwin Fernandes has said.
None of India’s best educational institutions, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have till now featured in the top 100 in the prestigious London-based university rankings, which is accepted the world over.
Speaking to ThePrint, Fernandes, regional director (MENA & South Asia), QS, said, “When I started engaging with Indian education institutions eight years back, we did not even have them in the top 500.
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“Today we have two (three) institutions in the top 200, there is appetite to do better and it’s just a matter of a couple of years that our top institutions will make it to the 100s.”
Source: The Print
