ANU in world top 30
The Australian National University is ranked 27th in the world, and number one in Australia.
The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2013/2014 released today show ANU remains amongst the top 30 universities in the world.
ANU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Young AO, had been waiting for the results of the latest ranking with interest.
“While rankings are imperfect measures and jump around year-to-year - we ranked 24th in 2012 and 26th in 2011 - they do provide some comparison with our international peers,” he said.
In this latest ranking, ANU is placed alongside partners in the International Alliance of Research Universities, The University of California, Berkeley, The National University of Singapore and University of Tokyo as well as the University of Hong Kong and Ecole normale supérieure, Paris.
To be placed among such peers is an honour, says Professor Young.
“This is an outcome of which we can all be proud, and a reflection of the commitment and quality of ANU staff and students.
“Rankings are not an absolute measure, but they do give us pause to stop and acknowledge what is great about ANU.”
ANU continues to invest in excellence and also has major projects underway that will improve administrative processes to provide more efficient support to our research and education activities.
The rankings are based on six indicators:
- Academic reputation measured via a global survey, asking academics to say where the best work is currently taking place within their field of expertise
- Graduate employers identifying the universities that in their view produce the best graduates
- Student-to-faculty ratio
- Citations per faculty
- International faculty ratio
- International student ratio
College of Arts and Social Sciences subject rankings
In May this year, four of the College of Arts and Social Sciences’ disciplines were given a top ten world ranking in the QS World University subject rankings.
Politics and International Relations, which retained the top Australian ranking, climbed four places to number six in the world. History maintained its 7th world ranking and top Australian ranking.
Linguistics is ranked 9th in the world and second in Australia, and Philosophy, which is ranked 10th in the world, is number one in Australia.
The ANU also ranked above all other Australian universities in Modern Languages (16 in the world) and Sociology (17).