Srinivas Padma: Personal Musings on Life, Growth, and Connections

1. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Website: http://www.iitk.ac.in/ Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institutes of Technology, the institute was created with the assistance of a consortium of nine leading US research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP). Previous Ranking : 2011: 1 2010: 1 2009: 3 2008: 2 2007: 1 2006: 2 2005: 4 2. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Website: http://www.iitd.ac.in/ The institute was established as College of Engineering and Technology, New Delhi, on August 21, 1961. It was upgraded as an Indian Institute of Technology in 1963. Previous Ranking : 2011: 2 2010: 2 2009: 1 2008: 1 2007: 2 2006: 1 2005: 1 3. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal Website: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/ The first IIT it was established in 1951 to train engineers and scientists. Among IITs, the Kharagpur institute has the largest campus (2,100 acres), the most departments, an

London: Four Indian edu cation institutions figure in the latest world university rankings, which continue to be topped by the universities of Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford , for their strengths in teaching and research. The four Indian institutions are the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Delhi University (DU) . The IITs rank 57th in the world's top 200 universities list and the IIMs rank 68th. The JNU comes 183rd in the last . The Times Higher Education Supplement, an authoritative journal in academia, announced in the third edition of the rankings. In the list of the world's top 100 science universities, IITs rank 33rd , while in the list for top technology universities, the rank of IITs jumps to the third place after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, Berkeley . The IIMs rank 68th in the list of top technology universitie