Australian universities have rated exceptionally well in the latest QS World University Rankings.
Each year QS ranks the world’s universities, and compiling a list of the globe’s top 100 tertiary education institutions.
Eight Australian universities appear on the 2014 QS list, released this week, with five institutions classed in the top 50. Australian National University was the best ranked Aussie institution, coming in at 25th.
US and British colleges and universities dominated the list, filling out the top 11 spots between them. Four UK universities made the top five.
America’s famous MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) took the coveted prime position followed by the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Harvard University making up the top four with Oxford University and University College London sharing equal fifth spot.
Making the list carries great prestige given that according to webometries.info, a website specializing in the rankings of international universities, as of January 2014 there were at least 22,123 universities in the world.
The QS World University Rankings measure research quality, graduate employment, staff-to-student ratios, teaching standards and the number of international students.
QS World University Rankings complete top 100 list for 2014
(Australian universities in bold)
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2 University of Cambridge
2 Imperial College London
4 Harvard University
5 University of Oxford
5 UCL (University College London)
7 Stanford University
8 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
9 Princeton University
10 Yale University
11 University of Chicago
12 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
13 University of Pennsylvania
14 Columbia University
14 Johns Hopkins University
16 King’s College London (KCL)
17 University of Edinburgh
17 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
19 Cornell University
20 University of Toronto
21 McGill University
22 National University of Singapore (NUS)
23 University of Michigan
24 Ecole normale supérieure
25 Australian National University
25 Duke University
27 University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
28 University of Hong Kong
29 University of Bristol
30 The University of Manchester
31 The University of Tokyo
31 Seoul National University
33 The University of Melbourne
34 Northwestern University
35 Ecole Polytechnique
36 Kyoto University
37 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
37 The University of Sydney
39 Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
40 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
41 New York University (NYU)
41 University of Wisconsin-Madison
43 University of British Columbia
43 The University of Queensland
45 University of Copenhagen
46 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
47 Tsinghua University
48 The University of New South Wales
49 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
50 University of Amsterdam
51 KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
52 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
52 Brown University
54 Technische Universität München
55 Osaka University
55 University of Glasgow
57 Peking University
57 University of Zurich
59 University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
60 Lund University
61 The University of Warwick
62 University of North Carolina
63 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
64 University of Birmingham
65 University of Washington
65 Carnegie Mellon University
67 University of Helsinki
68 Tokyo Institute of Technology
69 The University of Sheffield
70 Monash University
71 Fudan University
71 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
71 Tohoku University
71 Trinity College Dublin
75 Leiden University
76 National Taiwan University (NTU)
77 The University of Nottingham
78 Boston University
79 University of Texas
80 Utrecht University
81 Uppsala University
82 KU Leuven
83 Université de Montréal
84 University of Alberta
85 University of Geneva
86 Delft University of Technology
86 Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)
88 University of St Andrews
89 The University of Western Australia
90 University of Groningen
90 Erasmus University Rotterdam
92 The University of Auckland New Zealand
92 Durham University
94 University of Southampton
95 University of California
96 Aarhus University Denmark
97 University of Leeds
98 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
99 Washington University
100 The University of Adelaide
