How Badly Do India’s Universities Need To Chase World Rankings?

By Pushkar. Given the massive popularity and growing influence of world university rankings, it is easy to forget that the very first such rankings – the Academic Ranking of World Universities – were produced by China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University as recently as 2003. Over the past decade, international rankings of universities, by Times Higher Education (THE), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and, of course, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, have not only become a routine annual affair but are also treated as a report card on the state and status of higher education institutions in countries across the world. Read more...