University climbs to No. 36 in world
THE University of Melbourne has climbed two places in the Times Higher Education-QS (THE-QS) World Rankings. Coming in at number 36, the University was ranked ahead of a number of highly respected international universities, including the University of California Berkeley, Trinity College Dublin, New York University and the London School of Economics.
Melbourne was again the only Australian university to have all surveyed disciplines in the top 30 in the world. It has moved up three spots to No. 6 in the world for the employability of its graduates in a survey of major global and national employers across both the public and private sectors.
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis said it was a serious challenge for Australian universities to compete in these volatile rankings with better-resourced UK, US and Japanese universities.
"It's therefore extremely welcome to see the University of Melbourne, and a number of other Australian universities, moving up a list where the universities at the top enjoy significantly better funding," he said.
To find out more about how the University of Melbourne performed in the THE-QS World Rankings, please visit http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/n-159.