RMIT has ranked 251 in the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings (WUR), an increase of 59 places globally. Since 2016, RMIT has climbed an impressive 250 places overall.
RMIT also strengthened its position in Australia, ranking 16 out of 37 institutions, an uplift of seven places.
RMIT’s rise in THE rankings is largely due to continued strengthening of its reputation for excellence in research endeavours and for the quality of teaching and learning programs.
THE’s rankings is one of the most diverse ranking schemes, measuring the performance of some 1,800 universities across 104 countries and regions globally.
It ranks institutions against five key measures (and a total of 18 indicators), with RMIT making strong gains in its global performance across four of these indicators this year:
Teaching: the learning environment (up 102 places)
Research environment (up 36 places)
Citations (up 207 places)
Industry (up 104 places).
Key to RMIT’s improved result is an uplift in reputation for teaching and research quality, as well as good improvements in the measures for research strength, excellence, influence and income.
Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Alec Carmeron.
Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Alec Carmeron said the University’s uplift in Industry score was largely driven by the new measure on patents, demonstrating the excellence and innovation of our research.
“This is a wonderful outcome for RMIT, demonstrating how we’re continuing to enhance our reputation for quality and excellence in teaching and research among the global community, and clearly living up to our purpose as a university of impact,” Cameron said.
“My thanks to our talented people who have contributed to this result.”
RMIT continues to see strong results across the main rankings schemas including THE Impact Rankings, QS World University Rankings and CWTS Lieden Rankings.
