University of Calcutta second-best institution in India: Shanghai Ranking

It comes behind only the Indian Institute of Science but is ahead of other top universities in the country and even the Indian Institutes of Technology.

The city that mostly lives in its past glory has something to cheer for in the present-day: a recent international ranking has adjudged the University of Calcutta as the best among Indian universities. Among the Indian institutions listed in the 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities — or the Shanghai Ranking — the University of Calcutta (in the 601-700 rank range) comes behind only the Indian Institute of Science (in the 401-500 rank range) but is ahead of other top universities in the country and even the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Worldwide, Harvard University has been ranked the best. The University of Calcutta is followed by the Banaras Hindu University, University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University and three IITs (Delhi, Kharagpur and Madras), all of which figure in the 701-800 rank range. These, in turn, are followed by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Vellore Institute of Technology (all in 801-900), and the Aligarh Muslim University, Anna University, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (all in the 901-1000 range).