Are India’s Higher Education Standards Lagging Its Asian Peers?

By Palash R. Ghosh. Despite India's status as a rising global economic power and the producer of many of the world’s best scientific minds, its universities apparently leave something to be desired.
According to The (London) Times Higher Education World University Rankings for Asia in 2012-2013, only three Indian institutions appeared on the list of the top 57 Asian universities -- Indian Institute of Technology, in Kharagpur (No. 28); Indian Institute of Technology, in Mumbai (34), and Indian Institute of Technology, in Roorkee (53). In contrast, Japan scored 13 of the top 57, including the University of Tokyo, which took the top spot in Asia. Read more...