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Some analysis of the THES World Rankings 2007

 

Some Top Universities go down the ranking

US Universities like MIT, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, New York University, Stanford University, University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University, have all gone down in the rankings in comparison to the previous year. The others that have gone down include LSE, Case Western Reserve, Queen Mary University of London, Macquarie University, Washington University in St Louis, RMIT, University of Toronto etc

 

Universities that have gained

 

Some of the Universities that have gone up substantially are UCL, Mc Gill University, University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, Kings College London, Northwestern University, Brown University, University of British Columbia, University of Adelaide, The University of Western Australia, Warwick, University of Birmingham, Ohio State University, University of Bristol, University of Waterloo, Simon Fraser University etc


India falls off the league table of top universities

 

No Indian university figures in Britain’s most authoritative league table of the world’s top 200 universities.


The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), which figured regularly in all the previous rankings, since The Times Higher – Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings which began three years ago, have fallen off the map this year partly because of a change in evaluation norms.

 

For this year’s survey, individual IITs were assessed, and not the “IIT system as a whole.”

Percentage Analysis of Universities featuring among:
                  Top 50        Top 100         Top 200

US                 1%               2%               3%
UK                8%              20%             32%
Canada         3%                7%             12%
Australia     15%             20%              30%