IITs Get Global Ranks - Fusion - WeRIndia

At some point, every Indian dream is pegged on the Indian Institute of Technology.

This year, that dream became global. IITs have crawled into the international, top-ranked list.

So IITs are now fourth on a list of 50 best entrepreneurial undergraduate institutes in the world! How’s that?

Our ranking is higher than some of the best Ivy League universities, such as Harvard. PitchBook Data, a US-based private equity and venture capital research firm, said that with a total of 264 entrepreneurs, IITians have started 205 companies and raised $3.15 billion together!

Another private leading agency, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), says that the IITs of Delhi, Madras and Bombay figure in the subject-wise ranking. In civil and structural engineering, IIT-M and IIT-B bag the 49th and 50th ranks.

Under the electrical and electronic subjects, IIT-D and IIT-B are 42nd and 489th. For material sciences, the Indian Institute of Science is ranked 46th.

IIT-Guwahati makes it to the 2014 league table of ‘100 Under 50’ institutions released by the ‘Times Higher Education’ (THE) magazine here yesterday.

IIT-Kharagpur is among the top 50 annually ranked Asian universities, beating all the other institutes this year.

So what’s in a rank, you might ask. Who cares about ranks anyway?

We do, we do.

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