The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-15 have once again demonstrated the distance that Indian universities needs to travel for achieving excellence in higher education. It is fair to say that we shouldn’t be surprised that not a single Indian university is among the top 200 in the major rankings of global universities in the world. While a significant number of universities in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are prominently present in the Times 2014 rankings of universities, recent trends have demonstrated that many countries in Asia and the Middle East have acquired an inspiring presence among the top 200 universities in the world. These include: Japan (5); Hong Kong (4); Korea (4); Turkey (4); China (3); Singapore (2); Israel (1); and Taiwan (1).