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Rank University All Students - Enrolments (2016) [3] 1. Monash University (Victoria) 73,807 2. The University of Melbourne (Victoria) 61,938 3. RMIT University (Victoria) 61,882 4. The University of Sydney (New South Wales) 61,224 5. The University of New South Wales (New South Wales) 56,090
University Type Campus [15] State/ Territory [15] Estab. University status Times rank [16] ARWU rank [17] QS rank [18] US News rank [19] CWTS rank [20] Australian Catholic University: Public Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, North Sydney, Blacktown, Ballarat, Strathfield, Italy: National: 1991 1991 401–500 501–600 901-950 416 1374 Australian ...
The Go8 universities are some of the largest and the oldest universities in Australia [2] and are consistently the highest ranked of all Australian universities. Seven of the Go8 members are ranked in the world's top 100 universities and all Go8 members are ranked in the world's top 150 universities; in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Times Higher Education World University ...
In June 2009, the Federal Minister for Education Julia Gillard announced the removal of all state-level university entrance scores and the introduction of a national Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) for Year 12 students of 2009 within the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, and for the rest of the country, excluding Queensland, in 2010. [11]
Academic positions in Australia and New Zealand can be either continuing (permanent) or fixed-term (contract) appointments. Continuing appointments at the lecturer level and above are similar to the permanent academic posts found in the United Kingdom, and generally involve a 3-5 year probationary period. [7]
The UAI attempted to rank students who did not progress to their senior years of High School, by estimating what they would have got. This keeps the rank consistent throughout the years despite fluctuating Year 10 drop-out rates as the rank was always measured relative to a Year 10 cohort, with the ranks of the drop-outs being estimated.
The first university established in Australia was the University of Sydney in 1850, followed in 1853 by the University of Melbourne. Prior to federation in 1901 two more universities were established: the University of Adelaide (1874) and the University of Tasmania (1890). At the time of federation, Australia's population was 3,788,100 and ...
The QS World University Rankings is a portfolio of comparative college and university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm.Its first and earliest edition was published in collaboration with Times Higher Education (THE) magazine as Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings, inaugurated in 2004 to provide an independent source of comparative ...