Not a Single Indian University makes it to the World's Top 200

Not a single Indian university, not even the much in demand IITs and IIMs figure in the latest ranking of the world's top 200 universities, with American varsities making it to the top.

US institutions have taken the top 10 despite President Barack Obama warning American students of stiff competition from pupils in India and China.

Three British universities, Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London, continue to make the cut with a university in China also making the grade.

The world rankings by the Times Higher Education magazine, places 75 US universities in the top 200.UK has 32 universities in the list, followed by Germany (12), the Netherlands (12) and Canada (9).

This year repeats earlier trends about India. No Indian university is deemed good enough to be included in the elite list, inspite of India claiming to have substantially increased its spending on higher education in recent years.

The top 10 in the list of 200 universities are: California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley.

Britain's Universities Minister David Willetts said the list showed that relative to its size, the UK's university system was the "world's best-performing".

Oxford vice-chancellor Andrew Hamilton has also warned that a lack of funding meant that the UK's universities would struggle to compete for the best research students in the "global market for talent."

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