Border closures blamed for Sydney’s top universities slip in global rankings | daniellamariewh
NSW’s top universities have slipped down the latest global rankings with COVID-19 border closures blamed for diminishing the institutions’ international reputations.
The annual rankings, produced by higher education analysts QS since 2004, are the world’s most widely read and use six indicators to compile a university’s performance. The indicators include academic and employer reputation, which are based on academic survey responses, as well as student to staff ratios, citations and international student ratios.
The University of Melbourne was the only Australian institution in the top 50 that improved its ranking, rising from 37 to 33.Australian National University, in the ACT, remained the country’s top-ranked but fell from 27 to 30.The report said Victoria’s La Trobe University had a “meteoric rise” in rankings, up 46 places to 316, attributing the improvement to a significant increase in research citations.
“There is a lot of opinion in them rather than hard facts on what has happened,” he said. “It may just be at this point that the perceptions around Australia have gone negative due to a known reliance on international revenue.”
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