The Australian universities among the world's top 50
Five Australian universities have made the top 50 in the latest league table of the world's best institutions, with two in NSW alone. SEE THE FULL LIST HERE
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Five Australian universities have made the top 50 in the latest league table of the world's best institutions, with two in NSW alone.
Australian institutions performed well for their academic reputation and international student ratios in the QS World University Rankings. Most, however, were at the bottom of the list of 1000 universities for their staff-to-student ratio.
Australian National University continues to be the country's top-ranked institution in equal 31st place, a small fall from 29th last year.
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It was followed by the University of Sydney at 40, the University of Melbourne in 41st place and the University of NSW at 44th.
The University of Queensland at 46, Monash University (55), and the University of Western Australia (92) have also appeared in the top 100.
The University of Technology Sydney, University of Wollongong and University of Newcastle didn’t make it to the top list with global ranks of 133, 196, and 197 respectively but all four improved by at least six spots. Macquarie University jumped 23 spots to rank 214.
Overall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the top-ranked university in the world for the ninth consecutive year, followed by Stanford, Harvard, the California Institute of Technology and Oxford.
The QS World University Rankings is an annual publication by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Previously known as Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings, the publisher had collaborated with Times Higher Education (THE) magazine to publish its international league tables.
The rankings measure a university's academic reputation, graduate employability, student-to-staff ratio, research performance and international student ratio.
Two-thirds of Australian universities improved their overall performance in this year's rankings.
But 34 of the country's 36 institutions went backwards in the staff-to-student ratio measure, which the ranking's compilers described as "a proxy for teaching capacity".
Monash University and the University of Sydney were two of only 14 universities worldwide to achieve perfect scores for both of QS’s internationalisation indicators, which measures by proxy an institution’s attractiveness to academic talent across the world.
At the same time, Australian universities have seen an increasing trend in the international student ratio measure, with 24 of Australia's 36 universities recording an increase in the proportion of overseas students.
The employer reputation measure, based on 51,000 employers' responses on each institution's link to graduate employability, was more varied, with University of Melbourne ranking 23.
But in the past year, 32 Australian universities have seen their overall scores deteriorate.
Rankings:
Australian National University (ANU)- equal 31st
The University of Sydney (40)
The University of Melbourne (41)
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) (44)
The University of Queensland (UQ) (46)
Monash University (55)
The University of Western Australia (UWA) (92)
The University of Adelaide (106)
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) (133)
University of Wollongong (196)
University of Newcastle (197)
Macquarie University (214)
Curtin University (217)
RMIT University (223)
University of South Australia (UniSA) (295)