Sydney again ranks among world's best
30 October 2009
The University of Sydney has jumped three places in this year's rankings published by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Sydney is ranked as 94 in the world, 9th in the Asia/Pacific region and is one of only 3 Australian universities in the top 100.
Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence said he was very pleased that Sydney's improvement was continuing to be recognised internationally.
First published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities and the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, these rankings attract attention because of the methodology used.
ARWU uses six indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, the number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution.
In this year's prestigious Times Higher Education world rankings Sydney has also improved its position to be ranked 36 amongst the world's top 200 universities and equal second in Australia.
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