Times Higher Education 2010 Rankings

[minilunchbox]

Woo, it's that time of year again.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html

Australia's Universities

36 - University of Melbourne
43 - Australian National University
71 - University of Sydney
73 - University of Adelaide
81 - University of Queensland Australia
152 - University of News South Wales
178 - Monash University

Subject specific rankings haven't been published yet.

[Edmund]

Yay Unimelb on top

[/0]

Holy shit what happened to ANU and Monash?

[taiga]

I feel shit for giving preference to Monash over Melbourne now.

[AzureBlue]

GO Melb!!

[TrueLight]

The methodology of ranking universities

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/the-methodology-of-ranking-universities/story-e6frgcjx-1225924935099

[vea]

What happened to monash...

[lynt.br]

Nothing happened to Monash, they just changed the way they produce the rankings. I think Monash ranks low because it has a huge staff-student ratio.

Also those ranking have almost no bearing for undergraduate students. It's mostly about postgrad and research stuff.

[EvangelionZeta]

lol @ Monash.  O______O

[vexx]

Haha wtf, monash has been going down ever year with the THE, but this jump woah.
and also with unsw, it was like top 50 last year.. this is whack

[appianway]

There are so many different ranking systems. The Shanghai Jiao Tong ratings are very different; the QS ones are too.

[Eriny]

The Shanghai Jiao Tong ones are very different indeed, the highest rank any Australian uni gets is 59 (ANU)

Lots of people were talking about this today, as you can imagine given it's a huge fall from ANU - 17 to 43! But yeah, it all depends on what criteria you use and what you think is important in a university. Another reason why you shouldn't choose on rankings alone!

Should also note that UWA isn't even in the top 200 anymore! That's not good for a Group of 8 university. But I'd say that all Australian universities are going to be disadvantaged a little because all the best ones in the country are absolutely huge and therefore tend to not have awesome student to teacher ratios.

[TrueLight]

staff to student ratios make up 4.5% of the overall ranking this year

which is probably a lot since the ranking is so tight.... so maybe monash might have gone up 40 ranks if there was a better staff to student ratio

[/0]

I was under the impression ANU had an excellent staff to student ratio

[Noblesse]

Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings
59. ANU (no change)
62. University of Melbourne (up 13 places)
94. University of Sydney (up 2 places)
101-150. University of Western Australia & Queensland (no change)
151-200. Monash (up from 201-302)
201-300. Macquarie (no change)

QS Rankings (split from Times this year)
20. ANU (down 3 places)
37. University of Sydney (down 1 place)
38. University of Melbourne (down 2 places)
43. University of Queensland (down 2 places)
46. University of NSW (up 1 place)
61. Monash Uni (down 16 places)
89. UWA (down 5 places)