IISc, IIT Delhi, Madras feature in the world reputation rankings 2025

Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings 2025: India’s top four universities are - Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi - IIT Madras - Shiksha “O” Anusandhan.

All Indian institutions have moved down the ranks as compared to a 2023 ranking. IISc ranks 201-300 after ranking 101-125 in the previous edition. Before the 2023 edition, IIT Delhi ranked 151–175 and IIT Madras ranked 176–200; now they are ranked 201-300. New entrant Shiksha "O" Anusandhan ranks between 201-300. IIT Bombay was listed on THE World Reputation List.

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The most prestigious and most reputable universities in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2025. For the first time, 300 institutions in 38 nations and territories were ranked using six performance indicators this year: research voter diversity, teaching voter diversity, research pairwise comparison, research vote count, and research pairwise comparison.

Harvard is at the top of the THE World Reputation Rankings for the fourteenth year in a row. Oxford has been ranked second for UK universities in the rankings since 2015 but Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is ranked higher than Oxford. With six universities in the top 10, American universities dominate the top end of the rankings.

Ten new countries appear in the ranking this year, including Malaysia and Poland, and for the first time since 2022, Sub-Saharan Africa is rewarded for its academic standing.

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