With so many options to choose from, students and employers often turn to rankings to evaluate universities. There is the US News rankings, Business Week's MBA rankings, UK's university league tables, the Australian 'Group of 8', and the Times Higher Educational Supplement's ranking of world universities. Each of these has its own drawbacks, and consumers of these statistics should understand them before relying on them. For example, the alumni contributions factor in the US News methodology skews the rankings in favour of universities which attract wealthier students/wealthier alumni (vs most value addition) and the THES gives high weightage to peer reviews which is hard to measure/quantify.
The varied goals (different majors, different post-graduation ambitions such as further research, type of job, etc) of students makes it a challenge to rank universities using factors relevant to everyone. So, use the rankings as a guide, but not as the ultimate decider.
Changes to the immigration point system may warrant a look at vocational colleges:
http://smh.com.auBased on the global nature of all resources (education, employees, employers, etc.), the THES ranking has been selected as the most 'international', and the standings of Australian (and IITs) universities is shown below (complete list of top 200):
There are number of resources for searching for universities by major/course:
Or, review the complete list of Australian universities:
By State
National
- Australian Catholic University ACU, NSW (both in Sydney): North Sydney (MacKillop), Strathfield (Mount St. Mary); Qld: Brisbane (McAuley); ACT: Canberra (Signadou); Vic: Ballarat (Aquinas); Melbourne (St Patrick's).
- University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Broome and Sydney.
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
- Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Wagga Wagga, Albury, Dubbo, Manly, Orange, Canberra
- Macquarie University, Sydney
- University of New England, Armidale
- University of New South Wales, Sydney, Canberra, Singapore
- University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Callaghan, Ourimbah, Port Macquarie, Singapore
- Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Tweed Heads
- University of Sydney, Sydney, Orange
- University of Technology, Sydney
- University of Western Sydney
- University of Wollongong
Victoria
- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Shepparton
- Monash University, Melbourne(Clayton, Caulfield and Parkville), Churchill (Gippsland), Peninsula (Frankston), Malaysia, South Africa
- RMIT University , Melbourne, Vietnam
- Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
- La Trobe University, Melbourne, Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Beechworth, Shepparton, Mildura, Mt Buller
- Deakin University, Geelong, Melbourne, Warrnambool
- Victoria University, Melbourne
- University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Queensland
- Bond University, Gold Coast
- Central Queensland University, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Mackay, Rockhampton and Brisbane.
- Griffith University, Brisbane and Gold Coast
- James Cook University, Townsville and Cairns
- University of Queensland, Brisbane
- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
- University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast
Western Australia
South Australia
Tasmania
Northern Territory
By City
Adelaide
Brisbane
Canberra
Gold Coast
Hobart
Melbourne
Perth
Sydney
Student Organisations
Sydney
Canberra
Perth
Brisbane
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