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Careers Melbourne tops Australian tree Times Higher Education has released its annual ranking of the world’s universities and the University of Melbourne is the best of the Aussies HE University of Melbourne has Higher Education, Melbourne was again finished as the highest the top-ranked at 13th in the world, Tranked Australian university with Sydney (35th), Monash (41st), on the Times Higher Education World University of Queensland (43rd), University Rankings 2018 list. University of NSW (81st), ANU Ranked 32nd overall on a list topped (equal 86th) and UWA (equal 86th) by the University of Oxford for the filling out the field. second year in a row, Melbourne The Vice-Chancellor of the improved from equal 33rd last year. University of Melbourne, Professor The Melbourne Medical School was Glyn Davis, said that the improved ranked 13th in the world rankings of ranking was “a testament to our staff clinical, pre-clinical and health schools, and students, who do so much to “The calculation of the rankings for The University of again, the highest of the Australians. make it a vibrant and stimulating 2018 has been subject to independent Melbourne Notwithstanding the University of place to work and study”. audit by professional services firm Melbourne’s strong showing among “The University of Melbourne has PricewaterhouseCoopers, making Australian universities, it dropped climbed up the THE and other these the only global university from 3rd to 4th in the Asia Pacific rankings in recent years in part due rankings to be subjected to full, region behind the National University to the move to the Melbourne Model, independent scrutiny of this nature.” of Singapore, Peking University and a globally competitive curriculum European universities filled half of the Tsinghua University. that couples broad undergraduate top 200 places, with the Netherlands studies with postgraduate and Germany joining the UK as the Australian National University in specialisation. This world-class model most-represented countries. Italy, Canberra dropped a spot to 48th in the “Australia is being jeopardised by the [federal Spain and the Netherlands each have world overall, but it was still enough government’s] reform plans. new number ones. needs to to finish second on the Australian rankings, ahead of the University “[The] rankings also show the fast Another notable trend is the understand of Sydney (61st), University of growth of our regional neighbours, continued rise of China, which is now Queensland (65th), Monash University whose heavy investment in their higher home to two universities in the top that our (equal 80th), University of NSW (85th), education systems is translating into 30: Peking and Tsinghua. Almost all University of WA (equal 111th), and the higher rankings,” he said. Chinese universities have improved competitors University of Adelaide (equal 134th). “Australia needs to understand that their rankings, signalling that the our competitors for top international country’s commitments to investment for top James Cook University, Queensland has bolstered results year-on-year. University of Technology, University students aren’t just the UK and the international of South Australia and the University United States, but also countries Two-fifths of the US institutions in the of Technology Sydney, were in the such as Singapore and China. top 200 (29 out of 62) have dropped students 201-250 range. Griffith University, Even our current higher education places in this year’s ranking list. Macquarie University, University funding is likely to see us falling The top 10: aren’t just behind our regional neighbours,” of Newcastle, and the University of 1. University of Oxford the UK and Wollongong finished in the 251-300 Professor Davis said. 2. University of Cambridge range. Charles Darwin University, Despite finishing outside the top 100 the United Deakin University, Flinders overall, the University of Western 3. California Institute of Technology University, University of Tasmania Australia was the Australian university 4. Stanford University States, and Victoria University were in the with the highest citations score (90.6), 5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 301-350 bracket. Curtin University ahead of Melbourne (90.3), JCU but also 6. Harvard University and La Trobe University were in the (89.1), Charles Darwin (88.0), and the countries 351-400 range. Murdoch University, University of Queensland (87.8). 7. Princeton University (7) 207 MJA RMIT University, Southern Cross The University of South Australia 8. Imperial College London such as University, Swinburne University was the leader in industry income 9. University of Chicago of Technology, and Western Sydney scores (81.6), followed by UQ (76.2), Equal 10. ETH Zurich Singapore University were ranked 401-500. Monash (71.5), Melbourne (70.1), and • Australian Catholic University, Bond Sydney (67.9). Equal 10. University of Pennsylvania and China” 2017 2 October University, Central Queensland The Times Higher Education website The full list of the top 1000 universities University, Edith Cowan University, said that the supplement used globally is available at https://www. and the University of the Sunshine “13 carefully calibrated performance timeshighereducation.com/news/ Coast finished 501-600, and the indicators to provide the most world-university-rankings-2018-results- University of Southern Queensland comprehensive and balanced announced finished in the 601-800 bracket. comparisons, trusted by students, Cate Swannell Of the seven Australian medical academics, university leaders, schools which were ranked by Times industry and governments”. doi: 10.5694/mja17.0210C1 C1.