Best Universities in Australia Ranked by CWUR

On July 11, 2016 The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) released its 2016 ranking of the world’s top 1000 universities.

The top 10 global universities are: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, Berkeley, Chicago, Princeton, and Yale.

For Australia, we’ve got 27 universities listed out of the entire 1,000 universities. Check out the list:

University of Melbourne: 89th

University of Sydney: 95th

University of Queensland: 99th

University of New South Wales: 117th

Monash University: 143rd

Australian National University: 160th

University of Western Australia: 213th

University of Adelaide: 319th

Macquarie University: 448th

University of Wollongong: 455th

University of Newcastle: 472nd

University of Tasmania: 512th

James Cook University: 538th

Curtin University: 544th

Deakin University: 564th

Griffith University: 573rd

Queensland University of Technology: 601st

La Trobe University: 624th

Flinders University: 632nd

Swinburne University of Technology: 670th

University of South Australia: 673rd

University of Technology, Sydney: 758th

Murdoch University: 835th

Western Sydney University: 848th

University of New England (Australia): 859th

RMIT University: 869th

Charles Darwin University: 902nd

Note:

CWUR uses eight objective and robust indicators to rank the world's top 1000 universities:

1) Quality of Education, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals relative to the university's size [25%]

2) Alumni Employment, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have held CEO positions at the world's top companies relative to the university's size [25%]

3) Quality of Faculty, measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals [25%]

4) Publications, measured by the number of research papers appearing in reputable journals [5%]

5) Influence, measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals [5%]

6) Citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research papers [5%]

7) Broad Impact, measured by the university's h-index [5%]

8) Patents, measured by the number of international patent filings [5%]

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