times higher education magazine has recently published its 201213 world university rankings the california institute of technology is at the top of the rankings with harvard university pushed into fourth place by university of oxford and stanford university which share the second place as with last year india had no representatives in the world top 200 but three indian institutions now make the 200400 best of the rest list all indian institutes of technology iit kharagpur 226250 band iit bombay 251275 band iit roorkee 351400 band phil baty editor times higher education rankings said more institutions from india are joining this global exercise considering the aversion of the indian academic community towards global rankings earlier what has brought about this change in which more institutions from india are submitting their institutional information and participating in the ranking process baty explains that there are a number of factors at play here apart from the fact that indian institutions are focusing more with regards to promoting themselves to the world additionally indian universities are welcoming a pragmatic and datadriven approach to the evaluation of universityperformance however he adds the data suggests that india still has a long way to go despite the fact that the world hires the best brains from india what stops india from matching up to the standards of global excellence when it comes to world university rankings it is fair to say that indian universities are lacking a global brand identity there is no equivalent harvard cambridge or university of tokyo the iits are definitely making progress in this area but there is still some way to go he says in a new trend the leading universities from across the asiapacific region saw improvements