Tezpur University among top 150 universities in Asia

From a Correspondent
TEZPUR, March 16: Tezpur University has made another mark in the global are by attaining position in the 131-140 rankings amongst top 300 in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2017 which was declared on March 15. This includes higher education institutions from 24 Asian countries. India has doubled its representations, claiming 33 places in the list, up from 16 last year. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore has topped from India by securing 27th position in the ranking. The other Indian universities that have occupied positions before Tezpur University are Venkatesh University, Jadavpur University and Punjab University. Delhi University has been placed in the same position along with Tezpur University in the ranking. IIT, Guwahati is placed in the 101-110 rank along with Jadavpur University. The Asia University Rankings used 13 performance indicators which were earlier used to prepare the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but this time they were recalibrated to reflect the attributes of Asia’s universities. The universities were judged across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and intertiol outlook – to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available.