Harvard out, Caltech is new varsity No. 1

LONDON: There is now a fresh name at the top, unseating long-time leader Harvard. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) knocked the famous Massachusetts institution from the summit of the Times Higher Education league table for the first time in eight years, with US schools claiming 75 of the top 200 places.
Not a single Indian university — not even the celebrated IITs and IIMs — figure in the latest rankin g of the world’s top 200 universities, with American varsities dominating the list.