India has been increasing its presence in education sphere in world perspective. With 33 institutions from India in the best universities of Asia, India for the first time entered the third most-represented nation, double the number in last year’s list. As per Asia University Rankings 2017 released by Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) holds on to its last year position at 27. The complete list is below:

1. Indian Institute of Science
2. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
3. Veltech University
4. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
5. Indian Institute of Technology Madras
6. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
7. Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
8. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
9. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
10. Jadavpur University
11. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
12. Panjab University
13. University of Delhi
14. Tezpur University
15. Aligarh Muslim University
16. Savitribai Phule Pune University
17. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
18. University of Calcutta
19. National Institute of Technology Rourkela
20. Sri Venkateswara University
21. Acharya Nagarjuna University
22. Osmania University
23. Amity University
24. Amrita University
25. Andhra University
26. Annamalai University
27. Cochin University of Science and Technology
28. Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
29. Manipal University
30. SASTRA University
31. SRM University
32. Sathyabama University
33. VIT University

Other Ranking Related Facts:

1. The number one rank has been given to Singapore’s National University, followed by China’s Peking University.
2. Japan dominates the list with 69 universities in the newly expanded top 300 table.
3. China comes at a second position with 54 universities in the list.