MIT caters to the smartest from all over the world whereas IIT
caters almost exclusively to indians
IITs, world's 3rd best tech universities
http://www.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/10iit.htm
October 10, 2005 19:01 IST
There's another feather in the much-adorned IIT cap.
The United Kingdom-based Times Higher Education Supplement has
ranked the Indian Institutes of Technology as the third best
technology universities in the world for 2005.
In a statement, THES said: "Our peer review of the world's top
technology universities shows that in 2004, the high praise for the
Indian Institutes of Technology was no fluke. Up to third position
in 2005 from fourth place last year, the IITs are a source of
Indian national pride as well as innovation and wealth."
The technologists among our peer review panel regard Imperial
College London as the UK's hottest university, ahead of Cambridge
University and fifth in the world, the statement adds.
The rankings, THES said, is dominated by the United States, no
surprise for the world's top high-technology nation. It appears 26
times in the top 101 institutions in our list. For once, this area
is one in which Harvard University ranks outside the elite,
appearing in 21st place.
"Our definition of technology covers the main engineering
disciplines including information and communications technology.
Viewed alongside the tables for science subjects, our rankings
suggest it is possible for a university to be strong in science but
not technology, and vice versa," THES said.
The top science institutions, Cambridge and Oxford universities,
cut less of a dash in engineering and IT, placed 6 and 13,
respectively, while the IITs come 36th in science despite being
third in technology. Overall, 10 of the top 20 institutions in
science are rated by our peer review panel as being in the top 20
for technology and IT.
In contrast to science, many technology academics appear rarely in
the world's top research publications. This applies especially to
institutions outside the English-speaking world but also to some
well-rated universities in Australia and elsewhere. It suggests
that big US institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, the California Institute of Technology, Stanford
University and the University of California, Berkeley generate not
only highly regarded papers but also many commercial innovations
and spin-offs, THES said in a media statement.
