The University of Queensland has confirmed its place in the world’s top 100 universities in another world university ranking system announced this week.
UQ was awarded a world ranking of 76th in the 2011 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities released by the National Taiwan University.
UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Max Lu congratulated UQ researchers on their strong performance in all the rankings systems this year.
“UQ has steadily improved its position in the Taiwan ranking program each year from 113th place in 2007 to 95th in 2010, and this year improved a further 19 places,” he said.
“UQ was ranked eighth in the Asia-Pacific region and one of the top three Australian universities.”
The Taiwan ranking program was formerly known as the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) Ranking during 2007-2010, It ranks the top 500 world universities based on the production and impact of their scientific papers.
This ranking system is based on three main selection criteria: research productivity (weighting of 20 percent); research impact (20 per cent); and research excellence (weighting of 50 percent)
This year, in addition to an overall performance ranking, the Taiwan rankings also offered six field-based rankings and 13 subject-based rankings.
UQ was ranked 16th in the world in agriculture and environmental sciences; 51st for life sciences; 58th for social sciences; 67th for engineering and computing; 102nd for clinical medicine; and 152nd for natural sciences.
“Our results in the Taiwan rankings closely match our performance in the third annual Scimago Institutions Rankings World Reports announced last month,” Professor Lu said.
UQ was listed at 77th in the independent Spanish Scimago rankings of research performance of 3042 worldwide research-devoted institutions. UQ's position also improved in these rankings, from 90th in 2010.
"This recognition comes on top of the University's top 100 performance this year in the Times Higher Education university rankings, the QS World University rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Jiaotong Index),” Professor Lu said.
People wishing to learn more about studying at The University of Queensland can attend a UQ Options evening on Monday December 19, 2011 from 4pm to 7pm at the UQ Centre, Union Road, St Lucia, following the release of Queensland Year 12 results on Friday, December 16.
• For details of the exciting range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs offered by UQ please visit: www.uq.edu.au/study
• People interested in undertaking research higher degrees at UQ should visit: http://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/
• Important information for international students is at: http://www.uq.edu.au/international/
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