For those wondering about Indian education standards said:
www dot topuniversities dot com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/results
Top university 200 or 300.
There are several organization which provide ranking:
1.The Academic Ranking of World Universities: is compiled by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was a large-scale Chinese project to provide independent rankings of universities around the world primarily to measure the gap between Chinese and "world class" universities. The ranking first time was published on 31st dec 2003 was published by EU.
2.Global University Ranking : is ranking of over 400 "world-known" universities by the RatER, a Russian-based non-commercial independent rating agency supported by the academic society of Russia.
3.A ranking of university and college web presence, the G-Factor methodology counts the number of links only from other university websites relying solely on Google's search engine
4.The QS world university ranking : Times Higher Education, a British publication that reports specifically on issues related to higher education, in association with Quacquarelli Symonds, annually publishes the THES - QS World University Rankings, a list of 500 ranked universities from around the world.
Other agencies or organizations are like newsweek , webometrics etc.
Lets look for the methodology being followed by the survey organization the link provided above ” The QS world university ranking”:
The overall ranking are compiled based upon six distinct indicators:
1.
Academic Peer review having weightage of 40% alone.
2.
Employer review with 10% weightage.
3.
Faculity student ratio with 20% wtg.
4.
Citation per faculty 20 %wtg
5 & 6th is international student and faculty with 5% wtg each .
Academic peer review survey is based upon the results from 5 subject area:
Arts & Humanities
Engineering & IT
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
Then 2nd is employer review by alumni’s and working staff & student .and 3rd point is clear just by name.
Citation meaning : paper being published by research groups in the institute being referred by other journal paper other than the same group; the stream IIT is not specialized in , meaning in research.
Being highly populated country and low budget in education, here in india, faculty student ratio could be optimal bt not best.
Now it is more easy to compare the ranking because without putting the methodology, ranking is futile.
The university which make in top 200 are: three or two IIT’s. But have a look at the situation:
Institutes like IIT’s don’t offer subjects areas like Art & humanities, Social Science, life science & biomedicine ( not sure bout this) bt the ranking is based upon all indicators. main stream in IIT's is eng and tech, also not emphasizing more on research in natural science. Moving to uni. like DU where eng &tech science stream is not upto the mark being lake of resources fund which are necessary to amend the situation in science and tech.
IITB, IITD, IITK and the ranking of these in Eng & Tech is 30,35,60 which is not worst(even I think its good) meanwhile their total ranking is more than 140 or so. All the IIT’s are serving there purpose well and good , these were made for.
The position of DU is 64 in social science bt far behind in other stream.
some institutes/organization, which are good(not best) bt couldn’t make in list( coz for being in competition out of 5 there should be min two streams at UG level) ; like IISc, TIFR(mainly research in physics, astro phy and material science) , NCBS(mainly biology and medicine), JNCASR(physics), JNU(some language UG courses offered) and all IIM’s .
Now government has started paying attention on education standard, situation could be better in near future.
Addendum :
I am not trying to say education standard is best in india bt point is its not worse.Its improving.