Google has revealed the most popular searches for people around the world looking for universities and five Indian institutions feature in the top 20, reports said.
While University of Calicut stands tall at number four, Anna University is ranked sixth. University of Mumbai is ranked 11 while University of Rajasthan and Annamalai University are 18 and 20 respectively.
The top search worldwide is for the University of Phoenix, a US-based, for-profit university, with many online courses and a sometimes controversial record on recruitment. This university founded in the 1970s, comes ahead of famous US academic institutions such as Harvard, Stanford and Columbia.
In second place comes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has recently been tagged as world's best university and also an institution with a strong record for pioneering online courses.
This ranking of online searches is very different from the traditional map of the global powerhouses of higher education, a BBC report stated.
The top European university is not some ancient institution, but the UK's distance learning pioneer, the Open University.
It has been developing online courses, including for the US, and is in third place in the Google most-searched rankings, the report stated.
The Top 20 most searched universities by Google users worldwide in 2014:
1. University of Phoenix
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Open University
4. University of Calicut
5. University of California, Los Angeles
6. Anna University
7. Stanford University
8. London School of Economics
9. Columbia University
10. New York University
11. University of Mumbai
12. University College London
13. University of Oxford
14. Florida State University
15. Harvard University
16. University of Cambridge
17. Liberty University
18. University of Rajasthan
19. University of Michigan
20. Annamalai University
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/5-indian-universities-google-top-20-most-searched-for/1/392620.html
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