Teaching Rankings

The University of Queensland is in the top five Australian universities and the only Queensland university to perform well in a table of teaching quality published for the first time in August 2005.

The table (below) uses the Federal Government's own data to rank the quality of learning and teaching at 38 publicly-funded Australian universities.

The seven indicators used to rank universities were: graduates' views of the enhancement of their generic skills, of teaching quality and of their overall satisfaction with their university program; the percentage of graduates in full-time employment; those continuing to further full-time study; drop-out rates; and pass rates.

UQ was the first university in Australia to introduce a scheme rewarding teaching excellence and UQ has been the recipient of more awards than any other university in the national Australian Awards for University Teaching.

Good Universities Guide

The results are reinforced by the fact that UQ has again received the best overall rating of all Queensland universities and one of the best Australian university rankings in the 2007 edition of the Good Universities Guide (GUG), an independent consumer guide that provides ratings, rankings, comment and information about Australian higher education institutions.

UQ received the maximum five-star rating for six key GUG indicators including “student demand”, “positive graduate outcomes” (reflecting both graduate employment and continuation to further study), “staff qualifications”, “research grants”, “research intensiveness” and “toughness to get in” (St Lucia campus).

Which is the real university when it comes to teaching?

Rank	University	Location	Score
1	University of Wollongong	NSW	34.24
2	Australian Maritime College	Tas	30.79
3	University of Melbourne		29.93
4	Swinburne University of Technology	Vic	29.33
5	University of Queensland		28.73
6	Australian National University	ACT	26.95
7	University of New England	NSW	25.56
8	University of Canberra		24.25
9	University of Ballarat	Vic	24.08
10	University of Sydney		23.93
11	Murdoch University	WA	23.49
12	University of Western Australia		23.42
13	Australian Catholic University		22.73
14	Monash University	Vic	22.16
15	Macquarie University	NSW	19.96
16	La Trobe University	Vic	19.83
17	Charles Sturt University	NSW	19.44
18	University of TechnologySydney		18.72
19	Victoria University		18.65
20	University of the Sunshine Coast	Qld	18.44
21	Deakin University	Vic	18.35
22	Griffith University	Qld	18.25
23	Edith Cowan University	WA	17.91
24	Curtin University of Technology	WA	17.45
25	University of Newcastle	NSW	16.31
26	Flinders University	SA	16.02
27	University of Southern Queensland		15.39
28	Southern Cross University	NSW	14.83
29	RMIT	Vic	14.49
30	James Cook University	Qld	14.17
31	Queensland University of Technology		13.67
32	University of New South Wales		13.56
33	University of Western Sydney		12.85
34	University of Tasmania		12.00
35	Central Queensland University		11.49
36	University of Adelaide		10.54
37	University of South Australia		10.11
38	Charles Darwin University	NT	9.05

(Table source: Ian Dobson, Educational Policy Institute, as published in the Australian newspaper, 12 August 2005)