Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Queensland has been ranked in the top 100 universities in the world for the second year in a row in the announced today.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ was ranked one of the top three Australian universities with a world ranking of 90.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ improved its ranking in from 50 last year to be ranked 45th in the world this year.
It also ranked in the world’s top 100 universities in .
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Vice-Chancellor Professor Debbie Terry said congratulations were due to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ staff whose sustained high performance gave Â鶹ÊÓƵ altitude in all of the major global rankings.
“The ARWU is strongly focused on research, so this result reflects particularly on our researchers at all levels – from research students through to very senior people – who contribute to Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s global renown for discovery.
"This very high rating buoys the global research reputation of Â鶹ÊÓƵ and indeed of Queensland and Australia.
“The major rankings systems use different measures and methods, but this is one of the longest-running and is based entirely on publicly-available objective data.
“Â鶹ÊÓƵ is ranked in the top 100 in all of the major international rankings. Today’s result reaffirms Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s place in the high echelon of universities worldwide.
“The result will help attract excellent students and staff from around the world to come to Â鶹ÊÓƵ to make strong contributions to the state, national and global communities,” Professor Terry said.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is the only university in Queensland with a top 100 ranking.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s researchers further improved their performance in the most highly cited category and the overall publications score.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities was first published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 2003 and is updated annually.
Since 2009, it has been published and copyrighted by an independent organisation, the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy and was released today by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Universities are ranked by several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff with Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, papers published in Nature and Science, papers indexed in major citation indices, and the per capita academic performance of an institution.
1200 universities were ranked by ARWU this year, with the best 500 published on the web at
The ARWU rankings publication marks the start of the University rankings season.
Find out more about Â鶹ÊÓƵ at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Open Day on Sunday, August 19 at the Gatton campus from 9.30am to 3pm. Details:
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