Seven Indian institutes have been listed in the top 400 educational institutions in the world by a UK survey, which saw Cambridge slipping out of the top three global universities for the first time. According to QS World University Rankings 2016 survey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) holds on to the top spot, followed by two other American universities -- Stanford at second position and Harvard at third position. Read | IITs at the bottom of Asia’s innovative universities ranking, patent system to be blamedCambridge University has fallen out of the global top three for the first time in the latest university rankings released. The ‘QS World University Rankings’ are based on four categories: research, teaching, employability and internationalisation. Read | 4 IITs, IISc among Asia’s top 50 universities: QS Rankings

Source: Hindustan Times September 06, 2016 16:02 UTC