The ranking reflects a combination of reputation and impact. It is
based dominantly on peer assessment1 -- a survey of some
1300 leading international academics from 88 countries. The ranking
also considers internationalisation, in terms of the number of
international staff and students, attracted to a university -- as a measure of
the reputation for research and education, respectively. Impact is
measured in terms of citations.
The World Top Twenty Engineering and IT Universities are shown in the table below.
Table 1: World Top Twenty Engineering and IT Universities 2004
Table 2: The six Australian Universities making the World Top Fifty Universities 2004
1. Monash best and only Australian university in the World Top Twenty Engineering and IT universities
In its "World's top 100 in Engineering and IT", the Times Higher
Education Supplement (THES 12/2004) ranked Monash #1 in Australia and
#18 in the world -- the only Australian university to make it into the World Top
Twenty.
Rank University Country Score (Norm 200) 1 UC Berkeley US 200.00 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 191.15 3 Stanford University US 150.71 4 Indian Institute of Technology India 149.34 5 Imperial College London UK 137.87 6 California Institute of Technology US 123.99 7 Tokyo University Japan 121.46 8 Cambridge University UK 116.46 9 National University of Singapore US 106.50 10 Beijing University China 102.42 11 Tokyo Insitute of Technology Japan 95.28 12 Oxford University UK 85.37 13 Harvard University US 83.04 14 Carnegie Mellon University US 82.90 15 Tsing Hua University China 76.28 16 ETH Zürich Switzerland 74.44 17 Georgia Institute of Technology US 72.99 18 Monash University Australia 70.04 19 Ecole Polytechnique France 69.84 20 Hongkong University of Sci and Tech Hongkong 68.62
2. Monash in the Top 50 universities in the world and in the Top Three in Australia
Over all disciplines Monash was ranked #33 in the world and #3 in Australia in the THES World Universities ranking 2004 and again 2005.
AUS Rank University World Rank Score (Norm 1000) 1 Australian National University 16 417.7 2 Melbourne University 22 353.2 3 Monash University 33 286.0 4 New South Wales University 36 275.7 5 Sydney University 40 245.2 6 University of Queensland 49 223.9
3. Rankings of other Monash disciplines
A Monash press release from
2.11.2005
summarises rankings in other disciplines.
The World Universities Ranking reports (11/2004, 12/2004, 10/2005) can be downloaded from the Times site (subscription or trial subscription required).
Other Australian universities ranking information can be found at the Australian Education Network site.
Some background pointers to Australian higher education state of affairs and current policy issues can be found in Dr Gamage's article at the Center International Higher Education (Boston College) and on the Australian group of eight (Go8) Universities site.