Times World University Rankings 2022: Oxford tops the list, three Indian institutes in top 400

Times World University Rankings 2022 is out and the list has three Indian educational institutes in the top 400. While IISc Bangalore has been placed at 301-350, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar has been placed in the 351-400 bracket. IIT Indore is in the 401-500 bracket. 

UK's University of Oxford has topped the list for the sixth consecutive year, followed by California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Stanford University at second, third, and fourth positions, respectively. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 include more than 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories.

Ten Indian universities, including Banaras Hindu University, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi Technology University (DTU), Jamia Millia Islamia, and Punjab University have been placed in the 601-800 ranks. The University of Delhi has been ranked on the 801-1,000 bracket.

Since the old IITs including Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mumbai, Guwahati, and Madras had boycotted the Rankings last year over doubts of transparency, the participation of IITs has seen a decline.

The United States has 183 institutions in this elite group with the most, 57 institutions represented in the top 200. China has two institutions in the top 20 for the first time - Peking University and Tsinghua University share 16th place.

Six new countries feature in the table compared with last year- Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Palestine, and Tanzania. Harvard University tops the teaching pillar, while the University of Oxford tops the research pillar and Macau University of Science and Technology leads the international pillar.