According to the Times Higher Education supplement, an authoritative journal in academia, the IITs ranked 57th in the world's top 200 universities list and the IIMs stood 68th. The JNU is 183rd in the list.
London Times has given 57th rank to Indian Institutes of Technology, India. Everyone knows that there are over half a dozen IITs in India such as IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay. Everyone except the intellectuals of the Think Tank at London Times know that all IITs are not equal. London Times feel that all are at par in its rankings. What is the basis for clubbing all IITs as one?
Further, the 68th position has been earmarked by London Times for Indian Institutes of Management. Everyone knows that there are several IIMs in India such as IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Lucknow, IIM Calcutta, IIM Kozikode, IIM Bangalore etc. Everyone except the intellectuals of the Think Tank at London Times know that all IIMs are not equal. For that matter IIMs are NOT at all universities. They do not offer degrees. They offer only Post Graduate Diplomas. They just run Management programmes only. At least the IITs offer degrees in various Engineering, Science etc. London Times feels that all are at par in its rankings. What is the basis for clubbing all IIMs as one?
Its for sure that London Times had not heard of Institutions like Birla Institute of Technology & Science "BITS" Pilani Rajasthan, Indian Institute of Science "IISc" Bangalore, Indian School of Business "ISB" Hyderabad,etc.
It's time for someone to compose a new Rhyme "London Times has fallen down, London Times has fallen Down, its Unfair Rankings"
Partha Sarathy, Kolkata