Three Australian Universities in the top 100 Global Rankings 2009

Australia has only three universities in the top 100 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) which is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Australian National University (ANU) is steady at 59. Sydney University has jumped three places to 94 while its rival, Melbourne University has slipped two places to 75.

Harvard University sits at No1, followed by Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley. Cambridge University comes in at No4. Of the top 20, 17 are US institutions, two English and one Japanese.

Universities are ranked in 6 categories: alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10%), staff winning Nobel Prizes and Field Medals (20%), highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories (20%), articles published in Nature and Science (20%), the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index (20%), and the per capita academic performance of an institution (10%)

Top 20 World Universities

Rank Institution Country Total Score
1 Harvard University US 100.0
2 Stanford University US 73.1
3 University of California, Berkeley US 71.0
4 University of Cambridge UK 70.2
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US 69.5
6 California Institute of Technology US 64.8
7 Columbia University US 61.7
8 Princeton University US 60.2
9 University of Chicago US 57.0
10 Oxford University UK 56.3
11 Yale University US 55.2
12 Cornell University US 53.1
13 University of California, Los Angeles US 52.3
14 University of California, San Diego US 50.7
15 University of Pennsylvania US 49.3
16 University of Washington US 48.0
17 University of Wisconsin-Madison US 46.7
18 University of California, San Francisco US 45.9
19 The Johns Hopkins University US 45.2
20 Tokyo University Japan 45.1


2009 ARWU – Australian Universities ranking

University Aus Rank (World Rank)
Australian National University 1 (59)
Melbourne University 2 (75)
Sydney University 3 (94)
Queensland University 4 (101-151)
University of Western Australia 5 (101-151)
University of New South Wales 6 (152-200)
Macquarie University 7 (201-302)
Monash University 8 (201-302)
University of Adelaide 9 (201-302)
Flinders University 10 (303-401)
James Cook University 11 (303-401)
University of Newcastle 12 (303-401)
University of Tasmania 13 (303-401)
University of Wollongong 14 (303-401)
Curtin University of Technology 15 (402-501)
James Cook University 16 (402-501)
Latrobe University 17 (402-501)
Swinburne University 18 (402-501)

Source: http://www.arwu.org/