ARWU rankings success for Monash
Monash University has achieved its best result ever in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
In the rankings released Friday, Monash remains in the 101-150 band with an estimated ranking of 115, representing an improvement of 19 places since 2013.
Since 2009, Monash has increased its ranking by an estimated 92 places, the greatest improvement of any Go8 university.
Monash University remains dominant in the subject of chemistry; this year making the top 50 with a ranking of 45 - the highest ranking of any Australian university in this category.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Ed Byrne said the results highlighted the continuing development of the University’s reputation amongst the global academic community for education and research excellence.
“The on-going improvements to the results each year re-enforce the commitment and dedication to the highest level of academic performance by Monash staff,” Professor Byrne said.
"Although international rankings are only one way of measuring what we do, the consistent improvement in our standing is a welcome recognition of the wonderful results we are achieving in research and education.”
ARWU has been presenting the world top 500 universities annually since 2003, based on a set of objective indicators and third-party data.
ARWU uses six indicators to rank universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of Highly Cited researchers, number of articles published in the journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Science Citation Index, and per capita performance.
More than 1200 universities were ranked by ARWU in 2014 and the top 500 are published.
View the figures released at the Academic Ranking of World Universities page.