Several leading Indian institutions of higher education witnessed a drop in the latest QS World University Asia Rankings 2020, with not a single institute making it to the top 30 in comparison with their other Asian peers.
While the best performing Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) dropped one place to the 34th position over last year, IIT Delhi dropped three to 43rd rank. The other top three best performing Indian institutes including IIT Madras, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc) and IIT Kharagpur too, fell in their rankings to 50th, 51st and 56th positions, down from 48th, 50th and 53rd