世界大学排名 澳洲国立大学排第16位
据2008年10月10日《The Age》报道，英国《泰晤士报》高等教育副刊10月9日刊登2008年全球200大大学榜，上榜学校近半数是美国与英国的知名学府。
排名前50位的大学中，澳洲占6 位。澳洲国立大学ANU排第16，墨大排38，悉尼大学排37，昆大排43，University of NSW位居45位，墨尔本Monash大学排47位。
ANU keeps top 20 spot in world rankings
October 10, 2008 - 5:50AM The Age
The head of Australia's highest globally-ranked university says local institutions don't have the benefit of massive funding injections enjoyed by their overseas counterparts.
The Australian National University (ANU) has retained its top 20 position in the latest ranking of the world's best 200 universities.
At 16, it leads the University of Sydney (at number 37), University of Melbourne (38), University of Queensland (43), University of New South Wales (45), Melbourne's Monash University (47) and the University of Western Australia (83), in The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings.
The rankings assess the strengths of the world's leading universities according to student performance, proportion of international students, and employer and peer surveys, among other indicators.
Topping the rankings are the leading US universities Harvard and Yale at one and two, with Britain's venerable institutions Cambridge and Oxford third and fourth.
ANU vice-chancellor Ian Chubb welcomed publication of the rankings, saying it was good to be part of the leading group of universities in the world.
"When you look at all those universities using the same indicators ... and we sit there, then I'd rather be there than some bigger number," he told ABC Radio on Friday.
But he cautioned against reading too much into other Australian universities slipping down the list, because the rankings were relative.
"I would be simply staggered if Melbourne's performance has actually gone backwards," he said.
"What it means is the performance of others has increased or improved and so, of course, you slip under those circumstances notwithstanding how you, yourself are going."
The rankings revealed there had been "massive, selective injections of funds, very strategically, into the university systems around the world", Professor Chubb said.
He said he hoped that a review of university funding in Australia would come to the same conclusion.
1. Harvard University, United States
2. Yale University, United States
3. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
4. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
5. California Institute of Technology, United States
6. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
7. University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
8. University of Chicago, United States
9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
10. Columbia University, United States
11. University of Pennsylvania, United States
12. Princeton University, United States
13. Duke University, United States
14. Johns Hopkins University, United States
15. Cornell University, United States
16. Australian National University, Australia
17. Stanford University, United States
18. University of Michigan, United States
19. University of Tokyo, Japan
20. McGill University, Canada
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37. The University of Sydney, Australia
38. The University of Melbourne, Australia
43. The University of Queensland, Australia
45. The University of New South Wales, Australia
47. Monash University, Australia
83. The University of Western Australia, Australia
