Melb Uni ranking?

[merlin]

I've done a little bit research and I found that in past few years Melb Uni used to ranked in 80's of the best universities in the world. However for this very recent year, Melb Uni tumbled down to 128th in world and placed just 6th in Aus, whilst many other unis improved in their rankings, in particular Monash Uni. Does anyone know why is this the case, is it because of the melbourne model or was this introduced because of the poor ranking? Also I'm really suprised that ANU always is ranked 1st in Aus cause before that I've never even heard of such a uni. Anyone know what's good about ANU? Lastly, does these rankings of unis have any sigificance such as employment opportunities, education standards etc? Thx alot guys! 

[RD]

where'd you get the rankings from?

[merlin]

Pretty easy, just google it. lol

[RD]

Hmm.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Melbourne#Rankings

[psychlaw]

It is only ranked 128th with Webometrics...

Its general Ranking is around 20 - 30 and it is the 2nd best university in Australia (after ANU ofcourse )


If you saw Webometrics rankings, you'd realise that there quite outrageous(incorrect spelling?)/heavily biased towards the US....

Sure the US have great universities but surely the top 40 Unis can't all be American Universities

Here are some more crazy Webometric Rankings

Cambridge 27 (ranked 2nd by QS - The better university rankers)
Oxford 37 (ranked 3rd by QS)
Yale 41 (ranked 4th by QS)

QS has ANU ranked 16th and UoM ranked 27

LINKS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THES_-_QS_World_University_Rankings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webometrics_Ranking_of_World_Universities

[bturville]

those rankings are always so complicated, and they're all over the place. i don't pay much attention to them

[merlin]

Ah good point guys

[humph]

Mmmmm, ANU.

[/0]

ANU doesn't advertise very much, so that's probably why people aren't so familiar with it. At a recent courses expo at my school, we had universities from all over australia participate, but not ANU. We tried to invite them but... they declined :/

[humph]

Meh, they don't really look for students from Melbourne, moreso for students around Canberra and NSW.

That being said, I do know a fair few Melburnians at ANU. Most, like me, however, came more because they always wanted to go to ANU than because ANU advertised sufficiently.

[Eriny]

ANU doesn't need to advertise.

[brendan]

I find rankings for particular disciplines more useful

[merlin]

can u give me any websites for that?

[merlin]

Still wondering why ANU is so high ranked?

[brendan]

http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/publications/reports/dr_aus_uni/main%20paper.pdf
http://melbourneinstitute.com/publications/reports/uniscope/mainpaper.pdf