Top Universities in Australia 2020

Top Universities in Australia 2020

Craig OCallaghan

更新日期 January 16, 2020 更新日期 January 16

The Australian National University (ANU) is the best university in Australia this year.

Despite falling five places globally in the QS World University Rankings 2020, ANU remains ahead of the next-best university in the country, the University of Melbourne.

Of the 35 Australian universities to be ranked this year, only five have fallen in rank since last year with ANU being one of them. In general, Australian universities have made impressive improvements.

One factor driving this improvement has been an increase in the proportion of international students at many Australian universities. 26 of the 35 ranked institutions have received a higher score for this indicator than in last year’s ranking (read about the methodology here), and nine of the world’s 50 most internationally diverse universities are now Australian.

Read on for a closer look at the country’s top 10 universities, as well as a brief overview of how the other 25 performed.

QS World University Rankings 2020 – Top 10 Universities in Australia

Aus Rank

Global Rank

University

1

=29

Australian National University (ANU)

2

38

University of Melbourne

3

42

University of Sydney

4

43

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

5

47

University of Queensland (UQ)

6

=58

Monash University

7

86

University of Western Australia (UWA)

8

106

University of Adelaide

9

=140

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

10

=207

University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)

10. University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)

University of Newcastle

Not to be confused with its namesake in the UK, the University of Newcastle was founded in 1965 and has its main campus in the Callaghan suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales. It has approximately 26,600 students spread across six campuses, including one in Singapore.

9. University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

University of Technology Sydney

UTS is one of the youngest top Australian universities, established in its current form in 1988. Improving its global rank by 20 places this year, UTS is ranked within the world’s top 100 for four of the six ranking indicators, including employer reputation.

8. University of Adelaide

University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide has been recognized for its innovations in various areas of research by the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA), a national research evaluation framework conducted by the Australian Research Council (ARC). It has climbed eight places this year to sit just outside the world’s top 100.

7. University of Western Australia (UWA)

University of Western Australia

The first of seven Australian universities to feature inside the top 100 in the world, the University of Western Australia outscores all of the Australian universities above it for both the proportion of international faculty members and the number of citations per faculty member (a measure of research output).

6. Monash University

Climbing just one place globally this year, Monash University is mainly based in Melbourne but has five campuses in the state of Victoria and two overseas, in Malaysia and South Africa. It’s among the world’s 50 best universities for both academic and employer reputation.

5. University of Queensland (UQ)

University of Queensland

The first of our top universities in Australia to rank inside the world’s top 50 institutions, the University of Queensland is mainly based in state capital Brisbane and has been responsible for a number of recent research innovations, such as the cervical cancer vaccine.

4. University of New South Wales (UNSW)

A founding member of the Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive universities, the University of New South Wales has a poor ratio of faculty to students, but more than makes up for it with strong scores in the other five ranking indicators.

3. University of Sydney

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The University of Sydney continues to be the third-best university in Australia and is the oldest of these top three, having been founded in 1850. It also scores higher for its proportion of international students than either of the universities above it.

2. University of Melbourne

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The University of Melbourne has a very diverse student body, with nearly 40 percent of its students coming from outside Australia. It also earns the distinction of being the highest-ranked Australian university for both academic and employer reputation.

1. Australian National University (ANU)

Top in Australia for yet another year, ANU’s strong performance is helped by scoring well in all but one of the ranking indicators. However, as the only university in the top 10 to fall in rank this year, the gap between ANU and the others is certainly becoming tighter.

The remaining 25 Australian universities are ranked as follows. After 500, institutions are banded (e.g. 501-510, 511-520 etc.)

QS World University Rankings 2020 – Top Universities in Australia

Aus Rank

Global Rank

University

11

=212

University of Wollongong

12

224

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

13

230

Curtin University

14

237

Macquarie University

15

238

RMIT University

16

=271

Deakin University

17

=274

University of Southern Australia (UniSA)

18

=291

University of Tasmania

19

=320

Griffith University

20

=377

James Cook University (JCU)

21

=383

Swinburne University of Technology

22

=400

La Trobe University

23

=424

Flinders University

24

=442

Bond University

25

=468

Western Sydney University

26

=484

University of Canberra

27

571-580

Murdoch University

=28

601-650

Central Queensland University

=28

601-650

Victoria University

=30

651-700

Charles Darwin University

=30

651-700

Edith Cowan University (ECU)

=32

751-800

Southern Cross University

=32

751-800

University of Southern Queensland

=34

801-1000

Australian Catholic University

=34

801-1000

University of New England Australia

本文首发于 2019 June , 更新于 2020 January 。

作者:

As editor of TopUniversities.com, Craig oversees the site's editorial content and network of student contributors. He also plays a key editorial role in the publication of several guides and reports, including the QS Top Grad School Guide.

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