The Queensland University of Technology has once again fallen below 200th in the Times Higher Education World Impact Rankings, after briefly moving up the list last year.
The university is currently ranked 201-250th range after moving up the rankings to 199 in last year’s Impact Rankings.
Times Higher Education (THE) examines three main areas to determine this: research, impact, and teaching.
The Global rankings look at performance in the research sphere, and the Impact rankings compare the university against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
QUT was not the only Australian university to drop down the list; out of Australia’s top ten universities, all but Macquarie University and UNSW Sydney slid down the ranks.
RMIT ranking expert Dr Angel Calderson said this downtown has mainly been due to decreasing scores in the THE reputation surveys.
“Australia has done really well for many years, but the years in which [it] was the shining star probably have gone past,” Dr Calderson told Times Higher Education.
According to THE staff, Australian universities are also “losing ground” due to declining international research collaboration and overseas recruitment, weaknesses which are predicted to become more amplified once the full impact of international student caps come into effect.
QUT is ranked 12th out of the 38 Australian universities included in the list and is the second highest ranked Queensland university.
The University of Queensland is currently 77th in out of all the institutions included in the list and fifth among Australian higher education institutions.
