The University of Queensland has advanced 12 places to be ranked at number 33 in the world’s top 50 universities in a new survey to be released tomorrow and now available online.
UQ is the only Queensland university in the world’s top 50 universities, and one of only five Australian universities in this group, in the annual top 200 ranking of world universities, produced by the UK's Times Higher Education Supplement-QS.
The University has cemented its reputation as the top university in Queensland, and one of the top in Australia, leapfrogging from sixth-ranked Australian university in 2006 to fourth-ranked Australian university in the 2007 world survey.
Vice-Chancellor Professor John Hay, AC, said he was delighted with the outcome, which meant that UQ had advanced 16 ranking places in the prestigious survey in the past four years from 2004 to 2007.
”It is pleasing that there has been a continued improvement in the rankings from 49th place in 2004, to 47th in 2005, 45th in 2006 and 33rd in 2007,” Professor Hay said.
“The University welcomes independent assessment of its quality and the new rankings reflect the University’s continued desire for learning and improvement.
“We think this is an outstanding result by any measure, and it confirms the University’s growing reputation and standing in the international community.
"Our graduates can be confident from such independent assessments that their degrees hold international cachet and will stand them in good stead.”
Professor Hay said UQ’s academics, researchers and students were recognised throughout the world for their work.
“UQ is one of Australia's top three research universities and has won more national teaching excellence awards than any other Australian university.”
Recently UQ was announced as being among the top five Australian universities of the top 100 Asia Pacific universities in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's rankings, based on academic and research performance. 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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