No University In India Has Been Listed In 50 Best Tech Universities

The rankings list of tech universities in the world by THE (Times Higher Education) this year was announced recently with the absence of Indian colleges in top 50, which brings up pretty much concerns for many Indians. What’s wrong with India’s higher education system?

The rankings list of tech universities in the world by THE (Times Higher Education) in 2019

THE’s list has been a notable rankings reference for students to look up which is the world’s top schools or institutes. The 1^st place goes to a famous name in the academic world, the University of Oxford in England. The runner-up is Stanford University, following by Ivy League's Harvard University and both located in the US. The list continues to call out California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) in the 4^th position while the last name in top 5 is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Those mentioned colleges are really deserving to be on the top list yet concerns arises when there are no Indian institutes appearing in THE’s top 50. It has actually resulted from several certain following factors. HSBC did carry out a study, which showed data indicating that nearly half of surveyed Indian parents chose to support children to go abroad for higher education rather than let them study in the home country. The desired destinations usually are English-speaking countries such as the UK, the US, or Australia.

The absence of Indian colleges in THE’s top 50 this year

As far as you know, the education system of Indian has been considered as the 3^rd  third world’s largest system, goes behind only the USA and China. Hence, what is the main reason leading to this choice of Indian parents?

In spite of its size, the Indian education system for the higher level has developed quite fast within a recent decade. A great number of new IITs, as well as IIMs, have been established during this period of time. While students are enabled to access easier to financial-stable classes, local universities have not many funds funneled into.

An Indian university lecturer is paid with a comparatively low skim

The fact is that a university lecturer is paid with a comparatively low skim compared to an industrial engineer in India. Chasing a career path as a professor sometimes seems not to be attractive for Indian experts. No financial support for researchers is even demotivating them from focusing on their academic walk. Indian talents who become lecturers and researchers in foreign institutes outside India are enjoying higher life standard with great benefits compared to those choosing to work in India.

Recalling a part of the reason, the Indian government doesn’t fund much to engineering and technology institutes for researching projects or something the same. Therefore, to carry on those projects, universities often call fundraising from big technology companies or organizations, yet it is very hard to dole out for most of everything, comparing to institutes in the USA or other western countries.

Building something new for a university is really difficult in India

That is not everything. Building something new for a university is really difficult in India. You can see how hard for an Indian college to have enough financial source to buy land, build newly constructed dwellings, as well as equip enough labs’ machines for the academic standard. In the best scenario that the government is willing to assist near universities in build shared labs for two or three units in a state, the burden of the fund would be reduced for higher education somehow.