The University of Queensland has performed well in a respected ranking of international university academic and research performance.
Last year UQ was announced as being among the top five Australian universities overall of the top 100 Asia Pacific universities in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Shanghai Jiao Tong this month released further rankings of five fields of research of world universities. UQ ranked in the top 100 in three fields: life and agriculture sciences (52nd); clinical medicine and pharmacology (51st); and the social sciences (77th).
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is published by the Institute of Higher Education within Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It is done independently by a ranking team for their academic interest, without external financial support.
The ARWU ranking methodology is published at http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006Methodology.htm.
Shanghai Jiao Tong is one of the oldest universities in China (founded in 1896) and, with The University of Queensland, is a member of the Universitas 21 international network of 20 leading research-intensive universities in 11 countries. Collectively, Universitas 21 members enrol over 600,000 students, employ over 80,000 academics and researchers and have over two million alumni. Their collective budgets amount to over US$10bn.
Late last year, The University of Queensland advanced a further two places to be listed at number 45 in the annual top 200 ranking of world universities, produced by the UK`s Times Higher Education Supplement, confirming its reputation as the top university in Queensland and one of the top in Australia.
UQ is the only Queensland university to be included in the top 50 in the world and one of only six around the country.
UQ also featured in the Newsweek rankings of the world`s top 100 universities, being ranked at number 91 on its list.
The University was independently ranked as one of Australia`s best universities in the 2007 edition of The Good Universities Guide. UQ was awarded the maximum five-star rating for six key performance indicators. They included student demand, positive graduate outcomes (reflecting both graduate employment and going on to further study), staff qualifications, research grants, research intensivity and toughness to get in (St Lucia campus).
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