BANGALORE: Two Indian institutes have made a breakthrough for the first time in history to make it into the top 200 lists of world's best universities. Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Science has bagged the leading spot among its many contenders qualifying in the 147th rank. Another Indian institute to make the list is the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi that took the 179th spot this year, making tremendous progress from last year’s 235^th rank, reports TOI.

As per the QS World University Rankings 2015, there are around 14 Indian institutions in the World University Rankings with around half of them being present in the global 400. However, on the down side, the University of Delhi and the University of Mumbai haven’t placed.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) bags the first spot in the world's top university, Harvard placing in second and finally followed by The University of Cambridge along with Stanford University in third place. London stands as the only city in the world to proudly brought four universities in the top

Ben Sowter, QS head of research, said, "India has two institutions in the top 200 this year, which has occurred as a result of QS evolving its methodology to be more even-handed across subject areas and it has revealed strength in research in engineering, technology and the natural sciences. If you want to compare India and China, the primary shortfalls are money and consistent policy leadership."
with  Thirty-four countries representing  the top 200,

U.S. being the dominant nation has  49 qualified institutions followed by UK (30), the Netherlands  with 12 institutions , Germany (11), Canada, Australia, and Japan (8), China (7), France, Sweden and Hong Kong (5).

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