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According to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015, America’s Harvard University has been ranked as number one from 100 prestigious education institutions across the world. Among Asian nations, while the list does not feature any Indian University, Japan’s Tokyo University has made it to 12th position.

The ranking revealed that London and Paris have the maximum number of top universities, each with five universities featured in the ranking list.

Cambridge and Oxford universities of the UK stand at 2nd and 3rd position respectively.  

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of the US has been ranked as fourth, while Stanford University has been pushed to fifth position.

A report quoted Times Higher Education Rankings editor, Phil Baty telling, "It is really a matter of concern that a country of India's great intellectual history and its huge and growing economic power does not have a single university that is regarded by academics globally as being among the world's most prestigious." on India’s failure to make its mark

Baty added, "Brazil, Russia and China, the other "BRIC" nations, all have at least one top-100 university in this prestigious list. It is time India gave more support to its leading universities to ensure that they can compete on a world stage."

The 2015 world reputation rankings are based on responses from 10,507 people from 142 countries which were conducted between December 2014 and January 2015. The list represents a total of 21 countries.

-Smrutirekha