The University of Queensland has again been ranked as the top University in Queensland and one of the top nationally in the 2010 Academic Rankings of World Universities released today.
UQ was one of five Australian universities in the top 150.
UQ has an Asia-Pacific universities ranking of 11 and calculates that it improved its performance six places to 108 in the international list of ARWU-ranked universities in the 101-150 band.
UQ was ranked in the top 100 internationally in Life and Agricultural Sciences (ranking 51-75) and Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy (51-75).
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) Professor Max Lu said the ranking reflected the University's continuing strong investment in high quality researchers, their research and research infrastructure.
“The University’s high status in Life and Agricultural Sciences and Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy endorses government and philanthropic investments in these areas at UQ,” he said.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities was first published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 2003, then updated on an annual basis.
Since last year it has been compiled by an independent organisation, the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy and was released today by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The ARWU uses a number of objective indicators to rank world universities.
They include:
• the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals,
• number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific,
• number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science,
• number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and
• per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution.
More than 1000 universities are ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published on the web at arwu.org.
Find out more about UQ at the UQ Open Day on August 18 from 2.30pm to 6.30pm at the Ipswich campus, or August 22 at the Gatton campus from 9.30am to 3pm. Details: www.uq.edu.au/openday/
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