Profile and practices of Indian premier institutes compared to global standards on the basis of QS World Universities Ranking 2013–14

Not a single Indian university is among the World´s top 200, according to a new global ranking. The QS World Universities Ranking published has miserable news for India´s education system. Around 11 Indian institutes/universities feature in the top 800 of the global lists with the highest ranking going to IIT Delhi which is passed 222 in the list. Two other made it to the top 300 are IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur. The story was similar in the latest Times Higher Education World Universities ranking with no Indian institution being ranked among the top 200. A country of India´s rich intellectual history, vast size and growing economic power needs at least some world class universities that can compete with the very best universities in the world. This paper tries to examine the average score difference between Indian top institutes with the global top universities on the basis of QS database and tries to explore the reasons for such differences. This paper also tries to show the level of competitiveness amongst Indian top institutes and adherence to global practices for attaining global standards to catch up the top universities of the world and revive India´s lost glory.