MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings – the eighth year in a row it has received this distinction.
The QS rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, student-to-faculty ratio, proportion of international faculty, and proportion of international students. MIT earned a perfect overall score of 100.
At 29th, Australian National University (ANU) was the highest ranked Australian university.
MIT was also ranked the world’s top university in 11 of 48 disciplines ranked by QS, announced earlier this year.
MIT received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas:
Chemistry; Computer Science and Information Systems; Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering; Linguistics; Materials Science; Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy; and Statistics and Operational Research.
Other Australian universities in the Top 100 included:
- University of Melbourne (38)
- University of Sydney (42)
- University of NSW (43)
- University of QLD (47)
- Monash (58)
- University of WA (86)
The University of Adelaide and UTS in Sydney ranked 106 and 140 respectively.
The full 2019-20 rankings – published by Quacquarelli Symonds, an organisation specialising in education and study abroad – can be found at topuniversities.com.
Nature Index
Meanwhile, the UNSW Sydney has risen in global rankings for its contribution to research in natural sciences.
UNSW Sydney has maintained its hold among the top Australian institutions for contribution to scientific research in the prestigious Nature Index. The University stands third, ahead of nearly 200 other Australian institutions, and is first in Sydney and NSW.
The Index measures top-quality research outputs in the natural sciences, rating institutions that were the largest contributors to papers published in the past year across 82 of the world’s leading science journals.
Among academic institutions, the University climbed the ranks to be placed 89th globally, a sizeable jump from 108th last year.
UNSW has risen to number 100 in the count of top institutions across all sectors, with the university’s researchers authoring 395 publications in 2018, compared to 324 in 2017.
UNSW jumped to the top position in Australia for high-quality Chemistry research output, followed by Earth and Environmental Sciences (2nd), Physical Sciences (3rd) and Life Sciences (5th).
Overall, Australia ranks 10th globally for quality research output, an increase from 11th in 2017.
