“Now do individual academics pay much attention to it? No, not yet. Not least because they don’t have to. They’re living in sort of an echo chamber, sort of a la la land where as long as they just do ...

A leading international university rankings agency has rated six Australian universities in its top 100. Released yesterday, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) gave the University of Melbourne top Australian honours. It ranked 39th, one place better than ...

The Australian National University may lead Australian universities globally, but in the Asia-Pacific region, the University of Melbourne has bested its national competitors, placing #3. That’s a result from the latest crop of rankings released by Times Higher Education (THE). Its ...

Universities around the world are atwitter over ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017, which rates universities’ performance in 44 mostly science-based subjects.  Nine Australian universities placed in the top ten institutions in 14 subjects. They are: Australian National University: #7 in Geography, and ...

Five Australian universities have made the top 50 of the QS World University Rankings for 2017-18, with a further three in the top 100. ANU once again led the Australian pack. It recovered from its two-point slip last year to ...

The University of Technology Sydney has continued its ascent in the Times Higher Education young university rankings, climbing six places from last year’s index to come in at number 15, leading local universities. The index is a global ranking of universities ...

The University of Sydney is one of the two best places in the world to study sport science, according to a new ranking published by QS today. QS’s Sports-Related Subjects table – a new addition to the QS World University ...

Australian cities have fallen in status as top tertiary study destinations, according to a new ranking released by QS today. The QS Best Student Cities ranking places Melbourne as the best student city in Australia, and fifth worldwide. Sydney is ...

The Australian National University has sprung up Times Higher Education’s ranking of the most international universities, coming in at number seven. However, there are large discrepancies in the chart when compared to last year’s list due to a change in methodology. Among local institutions, ...

Governments, universities and students should not use international rankings to make decisions about higher education, a new report from the UK has said. International university rankings: For good or ill, from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), argues that the ...