The other two Nordic universites are Helsinki on position 91 (down by 15), and Aarhus on position 98 (up by 8).

The majority of universities in the top of the list are American or British, with Oxford University. in top position. The ranking list was published on 21 September 2016. The THE rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators, making them the only global university rankings to examine all the core missions of the modern global university – research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity. 
Slightly below the top 100 comes University of Copenhagen on No. 120, Oslo as No. 132, Stockholm University as No. 144, KTH Royal Institute of Technology as No.  159, and University of Gothenburg as No. 170.

In South Asia, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore (photo) continues to be ranked highest, now climbed up to be among the positions between 201 and 250. Only one more South Asian university – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay – is ranked among the top 400, in a position between 351 and 400. Another three IITs – in Delhi, Chennai and Kanpur are in positions between 400 and 500, whereas IIT Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee are in the gap 501-600, along with Jadavpur University in Kolkata. See the full THE ranking 2016-17. 

Compare this information with another ranking service, QS World University Rankings 2016/17, said to be among the most trusted university rankings available, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford and Harvard in top positions. According to this ranking, Lund University is the premier Swedish university, ranked as No. 73, down by 3 positions compared to previous year), whereas University of Copenhagen is No. 1 in Scandinavia on position No. 68. Another three Nordic universities appear among the top 100, they are University of Helsinki on position No. 91, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm on position 97 and Uppsala University on No. 96. Slightly below the top 100 we then find Technical University of Denmark on position No. 109, Oslo University on No. 113, and Aarhus on position No 117.

Regarding South Asia QS agrees upon putting IISc in Bangalore on top, at position No. 157, followed by a number of IITs – Delhi on position 185, down by 6 positions (photo of IIT Delhi students), Bombay on No. 219, Madras on No. 249, Kanpur on position No. 302, Kharagpur on position no. 313, Roorkee on No. 399, and Guwahati (in the gap 481-490). 
The strongest non-Indian South Asian university to qualify to the QS Top 800 ranking continues to be the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad, Pakistan, ranked to be in a position between 501 and 550 in the world, the same ranking as for University of Delhi. Go for the QS World University Rankings 2016-17.