The 'Times Higher Education' rankings for the region found that the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, the country's highest-ranked institution, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay each dropped two places to 29th and 44th respectively due to a fall in scores.
The IIT Madras saw the biggest decline in the top 200, dropping 41 places to 103 in the 'Asia University Rankings 2018'.
"While it has not experienced the same rapid improvement as East Asian nations such as China and while some of its institutions faced declines, India's overall rise proves that it can make advances year on year," he said.
Baty said India was still among the region's leading higher education country even as several of its institutions have registered a decline.
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Tsinghua University, the country's top ranked institution, comes in at number two in the overall list after the National University of Singapore, which retained its top ranking.
India's rise is partly due to an expansion of the table to include over 350 universities this year, up from around 300 last year.
Two of the country's newcomers to make the top 200 in the list include the Indian School of Mines ranked 141 and Banaras Hindu University which is jointly ranked 194.
It also picked up points in other areas such as research productivity, even though it tends to lag behind on research environment. Its only area of decline was teaching reputation, the rankings analysis found.
While India, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey have all increased their representation, several of their universities have fallen down in the list.
"The South Asian region has increased its representation in the 2018 'THE' Asia University Rankings, but is struggling to maintain its standing in the face of competition from east and south-east Asia," Baty said.
The rankings are structured as global performance tables that judge research-intensive universities across all their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
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