None of Bangladesh’s universities are included in the top 800 universities of the world university rankings published by the United Kingdom-based Times Higher Education (THE). At the same time, 24 Indian and 8 Pakistani universities have been ranked in this bracket. Dhaka University and North South University (NSU) were in the 601-800 bracket in last year’s rankings.
Four Bangladeshi universities ranked in the 801–1000 range. These are: Brak University, Dhaka University (DU), Jahangirnagar University (JU), and North South University (NSU). Three Bangladeshi universities–Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (BUET), and Rajshahi University (RU) are placed in the 1001-1200 bracket. Khulna University (KU) and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) have been placed in the 1201-1500 range.
Last year, no Bangladeshi university made it to the list of top 100 Asian universities. In the ranking, DU stood at 186th place and NSU at 192nd place. Four universities from China, three from Hong Kong, two from Singapore and one from Japan were placed among the top 10 Asian universities.