IISc listed among world’s best small universities

The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, is in the eighth place in the list of top ten small universities in the world, according to a new assessment that has three institutions each from France and Italy in the list.

The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, is in the eighth place in the list of top ten small universities in the world, according to a new assessment that has three institutions each from France and Italy in the list.

CalTech is placed at the top of the Times Higher Education’s Best Small Universities in the World 2017, a release here said.

The three French universities in the top 10 are École Normale Supérieure (second), followed by École Polytechnique (fourth) and École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (seventh).

Italy’s three in the top 10 are Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in fifth place, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in sixth and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, tenth.

Small universities are defined by the publication as having fewer than 5,000 students and teach and research across more than four disciplines.

Seeta Bhardwa of Times Higher Education said: “The Best Small Universities in the World for 2017 highlights that small universities provide high student satisfaction and good working relationships between students and their professors”.

“Many students are drawn to smaller class sizes, higher teacher to student ratios and the community-like feel that a small university can provide”.