Rankings and ratings

How we stack up against the world's best

Whether it’s our innovations in teaching and learning, our strong graduate employment outcomes or our leading research, the world’s most respected university ranking agencies consistently rate La Trobe among the world’s best.

Year after year, these results reflect our commitment to outstanding student experience, the career-readiness of our graduates, our ambitious research culture and our partnerships with communities, government and industry.

Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings

THE evaluates world-class universities against 13 separate performance indicators.

Our THE rankings

QS Top Universities

A ranking pioneer, producing the QS World University Rankings and QS Stars rating system.

Our QS rankings

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank more than 1,800 world universities.

Our ARWU rankings

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)

The Australian Research Council’s national research evaluation framework.

Our ERA rankings

THE Impact Rankings

Universities assessed against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Our impact rankings

QS Stars

Focusing on topics such as teaching strength, employability, research strength, inclusiveness and innovation.

Our QS Stars rankings

Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT)

Covers a range of areas in higher education, including student and employer satisfaction and graduate outcomes.

Our QILT rankings

ERA research impact

How our research has enhanced the economy, society, environment or culture,

Our research impact rankings

Canstar Blue

Research-driven consumer satisfaction ratings and comparisons.

Canstar Best-Rated Universities in Australia