October 2, 2014

Rating boost in final major ranking for 2014

UOW has jumped 16 spots in The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, released today.

UOW has been ranked at 282 in the 276-300 band – compared to its 298 spot in the Times’ rankings last year.

UOW Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings said that one of the significant achievements made over the past 12 months has been the 10 per cent lift in UOW’s citations reflecting the quality of UOW’s research.

“This basically refers to how many other people globally are using our researchers’ work for their various purposes,” he said.

A ranking of 282 means that UOW has further consolidated its place in the top two per cent of universities in the world.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings use 13 separate performance indicators to examine a university’s strengths against all of its core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. All data are collected, analysed and verified by global data provider Thomson Reuters.

This year’s tables employ an identical methodology to that used since 2011-12 to allow clear year-on-year comparisons.

The THE World University Rankings are the final major rankings for the year and follow on from the recent 2014 QS World University Rankings, which also confirmed UOW’s spot in the top 2 per cent of universities world-wide.

More information: See www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/ for a full list of the rankings results.

Media contact: Elise Pitt, Media & PR Officer, +61 2 4221 3079, +61 422 959 953, epitt@uow.edu.au