Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 released

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings are a comprehensive, rigorous and balanced global ranking that assesses research-intensive universities on their core missions of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and internationalisation. 

THE World University Rankings for 2025 have been released with more than 2,000 universities ranked worldwide – the largest number ever. 

How did Australia perform?  

Once again, 95% of Australia’s public universities are ranked globally by THE, with six in the top 100 and 10 in the top 200 worldwide. 

Australian universities in the top 200 (in order of rank):

• University of Melbourne 
• Monash University 
  
• The University of Sydney 
  
• Australian National University 
  
• The University of Queensland 
  
• UNSW Sydney 
  
• University of Adelaide 
  
• The University of Western Australia 
  
• University of Technology Sydney 
  
• Macquarie University   

Among the Australian universities that rose in the THE rankings for 2025 were:  

• UNSW
• Macquarie University
• Deakin University  
• Federation University Australia.   

Australian universities are not only ranked highly overall, but also rank among the world’s best for individual study areas, with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2024 including: 

• 7 Australian universities in the top 100 for Computer Science 
• 7 Australian universities in the top 100 for Life Sciences  
• 9 Australian universities in the top 100 for Education  

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