Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and four Indian Institutes of Technology – Mumbai, Delhi, Madras and Kanpur – have made it to the top 50 in the Quacquarelli Symonds University Rankings Asia 2016. The global higher education analysts had evaluated 920 universities from all over Asia for this year’s rankings. No Indian university made it to the top 10, though.

Like last year, National University of Singapore and the University of Hong Kong retained their first and second positions, respectively. Jumping one place from last year, IISc was ranked at 33 this year.  Following closely are IIT-Mumbai (35th), IIT-Delhi (36th), IIT-Madras (43rd) and IIT-Kanpur (48th). Both IIT-Madras and IIT-Kanpur jumped 13 and 10 places, respectively, to be ranked among the top 50 universities.

Two more IITs – Roorkee (78) and Guwahati (94) – figure among the top 100. Both Delhi University and University of Calcutta have also done well. While DU jumped from 91 to 66 on the list, CU took the 108th place. Last year, it was ranked 149. Two Indian universities that debuted in the list this year are Amrita University and Andhra University.

India’s performance in these rankings is the fifth best among the 17 countries that feature in the ratings. While India has 23 universities in the list of 350, it is outperformed by Taiwan (34), South Korea (54), Japan (72) and China (82), who also dominate the list of top 10 institutions.