Chandigarh: Panjab University, alma mater of two prime ministers, a Nobel laureate and an astronaut, now wants to "hit the Top-200 rankings" among world universities, said a top official after it was listed as the top Indian university, even ahead of the IITs, by the Times Higher Education (THE) world university rankings.

"The universities with better rankings than us are good at pushing the frontiers of knowledge. They are good in research. This ranking has made us confident. Now we know what our competitors are doing," Panjab University's (PU) Vice Chancellor Arun Grover told IANS in an interview.

Based out of a 550-acre beautiful campus in Chandigarh, PU has emerged as the highest ranked Indian university in the top 400 institutions of its kind in the world. Having been placed among universities ranked 226-250th by THE, PU is the only Indian institution of higher learning to inch closer to the Top-200 mark.

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