research rankings
see how we rank
for more than 50 years, macquarie university's proud tradition of innovation and collaboration, focusing on areas critical to our future, has marked our position in the top one per cent of universities worldwide in the highly regarded qs world university rankings.
top 1%
universities in the world¹
100%
of our research at the two-digit level rated as performing at world standard or higher²
top 50
in 3 subjects³, 7 in top 100³
top 150
in 13 subjects³
top 195
universities in the world4
- *¹ qs world university rankings, 2021
- *² era, 2018
- *³ qs world university rankings by subject, 2021
- *⁴ times higher education world university rankings, 2021
university research rankings
it can be difficult to understand university rankings and how different universities compare, so we’ve outlined our key global university research rankings below and provided the indicators for each.
qs world university rankings
- #12 in australia
- #214 in the world
the qs world university rankings ranks more than 26,000 universities from 84 countries around the world.
key indicators include academic reputation, citations per faculty, student-to-faculty ratio, employer reputation, international faculty ratio and international student ratio.
qs world university rankings by subject
qs also highlights the world’s top universities in a range of popular subject areas. the rankings are based on academic reputation and research impact.
in 2020, macquarie ranked in the top 50 in the world in 3 subject areas and in the top 100 in 7 subject areas:
ranked in the top 50 | ranked in the top 100 |
|---|---|
linguistics | earth and marine science |
philosophy | education |
classics and ancient history | geography |
performing arts | |
psychology |
see the full results: qs world university rankings by subject 2020
the times higher education – world university rankings
- #12 in australia
- #195 in the world
the times higher education world university rankings 2020 lists the best global universities based on 13 core performance indicators including, teaching (30%), research (30%), research citations (30%), international outlook and industry income (2.5%).
academic rankings of world universities
- #12 in australia
- #201-250 in the world
key indicators include the number of alumni and staff winning nobel prizes and fields medals, highly cited researchers, articles published in journals such as nature and science , articles indexed by science citation index-expanded (scie) and social science citation index (ssci), per capita academic performance of an institution.
excellence in research australia
the excellence in research for australia (era) initiative is an evaluation of research quality across 41 universities by the australian government.
macquarie is currently placed in the top institutions for research, with 100 per cent of 2-digit research activity rated at world standard or above. macquarie achieved a 50 per cent increase in the number of 4-digit fields of research that received the highest possible ‘5’ rating. macquarie has maintained consistently excellent performance in physical sciences and environmental sciences, achieving the highest era ratings for these areas in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2018.
visit our era page for a better understanding of the assessment and a detailed view of our results.
cwts leiden ranking
- #15 in australia
- #421 in the world
the leiden ranking is based on bibliographic data from the web of science scientific citation index, which analyses the scientific performance of more than 900 major universities from 54 countries.
the ranking focuses on the scientific impact of universities, as well as their involvement in scientific collaboration.
see the cwts leiden ranking
content owner: dvc - research last updated: 21 sep 2020 10:51am