PiGMAN said:
highest ranked uni for what? all the polls i've seen (time magazine etc) had unsw as australias best.
It was from the 2005 Times Higher Education Rankings as seen here:
The Times Higher Education Supplement world university Top 20. Last year's rankings are in brackets.
1 (1) Harvard University US
2 (3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
3 (6) Cambridge University UK
4 (5) Oxford University UK
5 (7) Stanford University US
6 (2) University of California, Berkeley US
7 (8) Yale University US
8 (4) California Institute of Technology US
9 (9) Princeton University US
10 (27) Ecole Polytechnique France
11- (52) Duke University US
11- (11) London School of Economics UK
13 (14) Imperial College London UK
14 (23) Cornell University US
15 (17) Beijing University China
16 (12) Tokyo University Japan
17- (20) University ofCalifornia, San Francisco US
17- (13) University of Chicago US
19 (22) Melbourne University Australia20 (19) Columbia University US
Rankings for broad study areas are as follows:
Fourteen Australian institutions were ranked in the top 100 for
biomedicine, including (worldwide ranks in brackets):
Melbourne (10)
Sydney (18)
ANU (21)
Monash (28)
UQ (equal 29)
UNSW (41)
QUT (47)
Macquarie (57)
Newcastle (63)
UniSA (76)
UWA (equal 82)
and La Trobe and UTS (equal 86).
Twelve Australian universities were rated in the top 100
social science institutions. They were:
Melbourne (11)
ANU (15)
Monash (equal 17)
Sydney (19)
UNSW (24)
UQ (25)
RMIT (37)
Macquarie (equal 46)
La Trobe (equal 68)
Curtin and the UTAS (equal 96)
and Newcastle (equal 99).
Eleven Australian institutions were ranked In a list of the world’s top
arts and humanities universities, including:
Melbourne (8)
ANU (11)
La Trobe and Monash (equal 23)
UTS (29)
Macquarie and Sydney (equal 36)
UWA (equal 45)
UNSW (equal 52)
RMIT (equal 56)
and UQ (equal 89).
The list of the world’s top 100
technology universities also featured 11 Australian institutions:
UNSW (16)
Melbourne (18)
Monash (24)
ANU (29)
UQ (40)
Sydney (48)
QUT (equal 67)
UTS (70)
Adelaide (79)
RMIT (equal 90)
and Curtin (96).
Six Australian institutions featured in the ratings for
science universities, including:
ANU (13)
Melbourne (32)
Sydney (37)
Monash (39)
UNSW (40)
and UQ (56).
You Sydn-arians...*pfft*