BANGALORE: Ranking plays a major role while choosing a college degree, but that don’t seem to be going right with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The IISc institute that first made it to ARWU's list of top 500 institutes in 2003 has witnessed drastic slide in the global ratings and has now dropped 130 places in 11 years, reports Chethan Kumar of TNN.

ARWU which ranks universities on the basis of academic and research performance, carried out the ranking process by including highly cited researchers, papers published, indexed in major citation indices, and per capita academic performance.

Going by the above provided rankings, IISc just like in 2013, was close to 300, but at present its ranking is near 400, with over 50 institutes having overtaken it.

With this development the ARWU also threw light over its consistent drop in performance in subject-wise ranking. In 2013, IISc ranked 43 in Chemistry, while the ranking dropped to the 51-75 this year. In 2009 (Chemistry), it ranked in the group of 76-101 and retained the same position in 2010, jumped to 49th rank in 2011, 45th in 2012 and 43rd in 2013, while it dropped to the 51-75 group range this year.

When it comes to other disciplines, the Computer Science course which was ranging from 51-75 group in 2013, dropped to 101-150 this year. While English, where it had been in the 76-100 group since 2009 dropped to the 101-150 group mark in 2014. However, there was something to rejoice about as in natural sciences, the institute stayed in the 151-200 group, the same as last year.
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