Indian Universities

Shanghai institute’s research on ranking top universities is arbitrary and imprecise. The research and development done by the Western Universities are backed up by the Industrial sector with strong financial support. Indian universities do not get such patronage from the manufacturing sector, nor does the government try to boost such scientific research. The last (probably the first) time, I heard of any university doing some scientific research is the Anna University, which is trying to build a satellite with support from ISRO. It is not the universities fault for not doing enough R&D, the problem lies with the manufacturing sector for not believing in the Indian universities. For example, the automobile industry in India is doing its business based on the blue prints supplied from the western countries. They have chosen India only for low labor than anything else.

Having Nobel laureates should not be a criterion for ranking any university. Our universities are by and large better than most of the western universities in terms of the curriculum offered and encapsulation of various branches of advanced studies under one roof. The top four universities mentioned in the report has more Indians and Chinese, in terms of the faculty members and students. It states that these universities lure brilliant brains for their R&D work.