Varsities from Bangladesh snub Asia\\\'s top 100 ranking for 2015

Not a single university from Bangladesh cared to send data for the top 100 list of the Times Higher Education Asia University Ranking 2015 despite being invited. bdnews24.com came to know about it after it contacted the London-based group, days after it released the 2015 report, featuring top 100 Asian universities. Universities from Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and India dominate the list. As the online newspaper waited for a reply from the group, a few media outlets reported that Bangladeshi universities’ failure to feature even on the Asia list reflected the poor quality of higher education they offered. But the Times Higher Education group told bdnews24.com that they had invited Bangladesh’s universities, but did not get any data from any of the institutions to rank them. “Institutions in Bangladesh were invited to participate but only one responded to our invitation and then subsequently did not supply data,” Ellie Bothwell, rankings reporter at Times Higher Education, said. “Consequently, no universities in Bangladesh have been ranked,” she said in an email reply on Monday. The Times Higher Education prepared the Asian ranking based on the same criteria as the World University Rankings, prepared by Thomson Reuters.