QS World University Rankings 2016: IISc, IITs drop further in global ranking

The top 20 universities of the world are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2. Stanford University

3. Harvard University

4. University of Cambridge

5. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

6. University of Oxford

7. UCL (University College London)

8. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

9. Imperial College London

10. University of Chicago

11. Princeton University

12. National University of Singapore (NUS)

13. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)

14. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

15. Yale University

16. Cornell University

17. Johns Hopkins University

18. University of Pennsylvania

19. The University of Edinburgh

20. Columbia University

"Each of the six indicators carries a different weighting when calculating the overall scores (see below). Four of the indicators are based on 'hard' data, and the remaining two are based on major global surveys - one of academics and another of employers - each the largest of their kind," QS stated on its website.