Melbourne moves up key world university ranking
[ UniNews Vol. 15, No. 16
4 - 18 September 2006 ]
The University of Melbourne has again been ranked among the 100 top universities in the world in the prominent Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s (SJTU) Academic Rankings of World Universities 2006.
The SJTU has ranked Melbourne at a clear No 78 – jumping from No 82 in 2005. Melbourne has been steadily moving up the rankings since it first appeared in the SJTU rankings in 2003 at No 92.
Melbourne and ANU are the only two Australian universities in the top 100. Harvard, Cambridge and Stanford have again taken the top three places. Melbourne was also ranked seventh in the Asia Pacific region with Tokyo University in top spot.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis welcomes Melbourne’s improved position in the SJTU rankings. “Melbourne aims to be one of the finest universities in the world. Our consistently improving position in such international rankings confirms we are on the way to realising this.”
Professor Davis says the challenge for under-resourced Australian universities is how to compete in such rankings with the well-resourced American, and even some Asian, universities. “The public and private resources available to these universities will ensure they consistently top the international ranking for many years to come,” he warns.
“Melbourne is taking up this challenge through its new Growing Esteem strategy, a key objective of which is to strengthen the University’s international academic and research reputation.”
SJTU’s rankings measure a range of factors such as the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes, highly-cited researchers and articles in Science and Nature and citations indexes, and academic performance in relation to the size of the university.
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