Overall
Top 250 globally
Times Higher Education puts La Trobe in the world’s top 250.
Time Higher Education (THE), 2020, World University Rankings 2021
Top 50 in the Asia-Pacific
La Trobe is ranked as one of the best 50 universities across East Asia, South-east Asia and Oceania.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2019, Best universities in the Asia-Pacific region 2019
Top 50 young universities
La Trobe is ranked #45 and among the world’s best young universities.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2020, THE Young University Rankings 2020
Top-rated globally
La Trobe is in the top 1% of universities worldwide.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2020, World University Rankings 2021; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 2020, Ranking Web of Universities
Arts, social sciences and communications
Top 200 globally
One of the world’s leading university ranking agencies ranks our arts and humanities subjects among the world’s best.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2019, World University Rankings 2020 by subject: arts and humanities
Business and commerce
Top 300 globally
Times Higher Education ranks our business and economics subjects among the world’s best.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2019, World University Rankings 2020 by subject: business and economics
Education and teaching
Top 125
La Trobe's education subjects are ranked in the top 125 worldwide.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2019, World University Rankings 2020 by subject: education
Top 300 globally
The world’s three leading university ranking agencies put La Trobe's education subjects in the top 300.
THE, 2019, World University Rankings 2020 by subject: education; Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), 2020, QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020: Education; ShanghaiRanking, 2020, ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020 - Education
Health
Top 250 globally
La Trobe's clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects are ranked in the world’s top 250.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2019, World University Rankings 2020 by subject: clinical, pre-clinical and health
Top 200 globally
Two of the world’s leading university ranking agencies put La Trobe's psychology subjects in the top 200.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2019, World University Rankings 2020 by subject: psychology; Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), 2020, QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020: Psychology
IT and engineering
Top 400
We're ranked in the world’s top 400 universities for computer science.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2019, World University Rankings 2020 by subject: computer science
Science
Top 250 globally
We're ranked in the world’s top 250 universities for life sciences.
Times Higher Education (THE), 2019, World University Rankings 2020 by subject: life sciences