After having catered to around 40 million Indian students at home, the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (IIT-D) is planning to go international and open two campuses in Egypt and Saudi Arabia as part of a global outreach and expansion of top Indian institutes. It is the first such indirect step towards making ‘study in India’ a reality and ensuring India’s much-vaunted education system contributes towards enhancing global standard of learning. It will also enhance IIT-D’s financial health, reducing its dependence on government grants. But more crucially, India’s premier institution may very well be taking this step to deal with an allegedly inexplicable global ranking system, which has become an issue of debate among academics. The QS World University Ranking, 2022, published earlier this year has placed IIT Bombay in the 177th position, followed by IIT-D at 185… that’s abysmally low considering the high impact IITians are creating, globally.
