Deakin continues to rise among world's top ranked young universities
Media releaseDeakin University has accelerated its rise among the world’s highest ranked young universities, jumping to number 36 in the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings Top 50 Under 50 years old.
Deakin climbed 14 spots in just 12 months after the rankings organisation last year listed Deakin at number 50.
This year’s prestigious QS Top 50 Under 50, released today, shows Deakin is ranked number two in Victoria and number seven in Australia.
The rankings awards Deakin five stars based on performance across measures including research, employability, teaching, facilities, internationalisation, innovation, other specialist criteria and inclusiveness.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane den Hollander said the recognition was testament to the strong vision and passion throughout the Deakin community, from staff and researchers, through to students and partners.
“Just last year we celebrated our 40th birthday, which was a wonderful time to celebrate all we had achieved in such a short time, but it also reminded us how forward thinking the entire Deakin community is, with a clear direction and focus on the future,” Professor den Hollander said.
“Deakin is continually focused on how we can best support the communities we serve, especially through innovation in research, solving real-world problems right now in partnership with industry, and ensuring we are preparing our graduates for the jobs of the future.
“Today’s rankings come a week after we opened our visionary new engineering facility, the Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training, a state-of-the-art learning centre backed by an Australian-first approach to teaching that will lead our graduates to an innovation-centred future.
“Deakin has grown from Victoria's first regional university in 1974 to a thriving institution with more than 50,000 students from around the world, studying across campuses in Melbourne, Geelong, Warrnambool and online in the cloud.”
Professor den Hollander said that as Deakin continued to grow it would also continue to address skills gaps and to focus on the creation of new industries from new ideas, so the university ensured it educated graduates for the jobs of the future.
“This global recognition is reflective of all that the Deakin community has achieved together in just four decades and it is exciting to imagine what we will achieve in the next decade and beyond,” Professor den Hollander said.
Deakin University is in the top three per cent of the world's universities in each of the three major international rankings including the ARWU, Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings.