the first time an Indian university has made it to the top 30

16 Indian universities are among top 200 Asian institutions in the 2016 Times Higher 

Education  Asia University Ranking. "Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science is at the 27th position". First time an Indian university has made it to the top 30.The rankings were announced on Monday, and it's for the first time the list has been expanded to 200. In all, 22 countries are represented, up from 14 in 2015.

Eight Indian institutions are among the top 100 on the list and India has the most institutions overall among the top 200 South Asian universities list of THE.

The other Indian universities in the top half of the ranking include the Indian Institutes of Technology in Bombay (43rd), Kharagpur (51st), Delhi (60th), Madras (62nd), Roorkee (65th), and Guwahati (joint 80th) and Jadavpur University in joint 84th place.

Also, for the first time Singapore took the first two spots with the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University in first and second place, respectively.