Bulletin

Issue: August/September 2006

News

International survey ranks La Trobe in State’s top three

La Trobe University has been ranked among Victoria’s elite three universities - after Melbourne and Monash - in the latest leading global academic rankings, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University index of the world’s top 500 universities.

The Jiao Tong study surveys more than two thousand universities world-wide on a variety of criteria including research prizes, publications and major citation indices.

In the table of the top 100 universities in the Asia-Pacific region, La Trobe was also placed third in Victoria - and at equal tenth place among Australia’s 38 universities.

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian Stoddart, said La Trobe University prides itself on being an internationally recognised leader in the provision of high quality education and training underpinned by a strong research profile.

‘It is very pleasing that independent surveys of this sort continue to bear this out,’ he said.

La Trobe also featured among the top universities in the world in the latest British Times Higher Education Supplement league table. It gained 23rd place in the Arts and Humanities, 68th in the Social Sciences, 86th in Biomedicine - and was ranked overall 98th among the world’s top universities.

In that survey, La Trobe University Arts and Humanities was ranked equal 3rd in Australia (with Monash University), after the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University.