Are IITs losing their global edge?

IIT which is also leading to its downfall. Reasons for its downfall are as follows: 1. There are new IITs being opened or in other words it is expanding too rapidly which is causing other problems like shortage of faculty and facilities provided by the IITs. 2. The quality of faculty members in the IIT is also decreasing, the professor in IITs were used to be Ph.D. in their own subject but now there are professors which have only completed their B.Tech. 3. The quality of the students is also decreasing in the nation. 4. Due to its lack of participation in the research field it is becoming more and more problematic for the IITs to make their students into a brand which can be taken by MNCs. When IIT was opened in 1950 there was one goal of the IITs, to provide with best engineers to India but now it has changed to provide best engineers to MNCs.

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All is not well with the IITs, the contrast financed technical education chain to which many of the youngsters have aspired since the 1950s and I currently following to be in one of the IIT. There are almost 1600000 applicants which apply to IIT and out of which only about 10000 students are taken in the IIT. Due to hasty expansion there are many problems arising in IIT which is also leading to its downfall. Reasons for its downfall are as follows: 1. There are new IITs being opened or in other words it is expanding too rapidly which is causing other problems like shortage of faculty and facilities provided by the IITs. 2. The quality of faculties in the IIT is also decreasing, the professor in IITs were used to be PhD in their own subject but now there are professors which have only completed their B.Tech. 3. The quality of the students is also decreasing in the nation. 4. Due to its lack of participation in the research field it is becoming more and more problematic for the IITs to make their students into a brand which can be taken by MNCs. When IIT was opened in 1950 there was one goal of the IITs, to provide with best engineers to India but now it has changed to provide best engineers to MNCs. Due to the expansion of IITs, they have lost their collective curriculum and have been divided into separate IITs or separate universities.

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Although IITs do not figure in top 100 engineering universities of the world but IITs which are institutes of national importance in India have held a distinct edge over the other national and international institutes because of the success of its alumni in western countries. An IIT gets a substantial higher budgetary allocation in comparison to NITs, state engineering colleges, and private universities. IITs get huge funding through research projects by central government, PSU and Defence organisation. IITs have best engineering faculty in India besides IISc. JEE is the most competitive examination in world and legacy IITs are able to attract the best talent of India. IITs were able to keep their brand intact for decades until new IITs were not created. But the rate with which new IITs are being created the brand image of IITs is having a big dent. Baby IITs are unable to attract both good teaching and student talent. These baby IITs will take at least a decade of concentrated effort to build their reputation and brand similar to legacy IITs. Till these baby IITs build their credibility, they will keep denting legacy IITs brand image and legacy IITs will keep losing their global edge.

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The highest ranked, the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, came in at the 103rd place on the U.S. News and World Report ranking published last week. The league table put Chinas Tsinghua University top, ahead of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. The others from India all IITs apart from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Jadavpur University in Kolkata placed between 169th and 229th. Universities were graded on 12 indicators, including the number of academic research papers produced, citations were given and Ph.Ds awarded. This is the first year Indian schools have been included in the engineering-specific rankings. The Indian engineering schools have produced some stellar engineering graduates. For instance, IIT Kharagpur, ranked 171, counts Google CEO Sundar Pichai among its metallurgical engineering graduates. Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO, earned his electrical engineering degree from Manipal Institute of Technology, which didn't make it into the rankings. So why don't these schools do better internationally? Experts attribute the low rankings to a lack of focus on research and the high student-to-faculty ratio among other things. In the Quacquarelli Symonds global university rankings, published in September, Indian schools gained ground this year. IIT Delhi climbed 56 spots to the179th rank and the Indian Institute of Science ranked 147th but they were the only ones to make it into the top 200. Indian institutes also lose ground in rankings because they enroll only a small cohort of foreign students, mostly in post graduate and research programs, and also have very small international faculties. In IIT Delhi, for instance, the size of international faculty was only about 1% of its total teaching staff of more than 400. At MIT, which led the QS ranking, international staff members made up more than 55% of the total faculty. At the National University of Singapore, the top-ranking Asian university on the QS list, more than 60% of the staff were international. IIT Chennai, in South India, enrolled its first international student in an undergraduate program last year. Despite these advances, some, including Narayan Murthy, founder of Infosys Ltd., one of Indias largest outsourcing firms, remain skeptical of the quality of education at domestic institutions.

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IITs are definitely not losing the global edge. These are at the pinnacle in the world of research. I am not talking about the new IITs that are being opened and still have a lot way to go but definitely the old ones that were opened in 1961 and a time further are the best. The opening of new IIT might have diluted the name but still, the quality of work and research that is being done in IITs is definitely extra ordinary and hence IITs compete to the best universities in the world. The new areas of research and collaborations with the technical world are the testament for the same. IITs produce the highest rate of placements for the students with higher packages than most of the universities in the country. Not only this, guys from IITs have been in the higher studies in the world and are making the remarkable contributions to the fields of science and technology. Locally, we might hear in the news that seats through JEE Advanced are not being filled fully. That is the case for the low-ranked IITs and not so good branches where students prefer good NITs than new IITs. And this doesn't mean IIT standard is diluting. One thing is for sure that IITs are not losing their global edge and with the most efficient minds, IITs are at the zenith of the technological as well as the research world.

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