30 April 2015

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The Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 Rankings 2015 is a ranking of the top 100 universities under 50 years old.  As the blurb pus it, ” it provides a glimpse into the future, showcasing not those institutions with centuries of history, but the rising stars which show great potential.”  The ranking measures universities on research, citations, teaching, international outlook and industry outcome.

 In all,  16 Australian universities are listed, the largest national contingent, with University of Technology Sydney being the highest ranked. Swinburne University of Technology entered the ranking for the first time,  which Swinburne’s vice-chancellor Linda Kristjanson reflects its “dedication to producing outstanding research that is relevant, world changing and internationally recognised.” 

Kristjanson  also made the point to  Campus Morning Mail that “this should provide policy makers with confidence that Australia’s system of higher education is of world class. It should also cause us to continue to critically evaluate proposed changes, which would radically alter the policy and funding settings on which this success has been built.”

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100 Under 50 Rankings 2015 results

Rank	Institution	Location	Overall score
1	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	72.7
2	Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech)	Republic of Korea	69.2
3	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Republic of Korea	68.3
4	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	68.1
5	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	67.1
6	Maastricht University	Netherlands	61.5
7	University of California, Irvine	United States	61.4
8	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	58.8
9	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	57.8
10	Paris-Sud University	France	57.5
11	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	55.9
12	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain	52.5
13	Sabanci University	Turkey	51.6
14	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	51.0
15	Ulm University	Germany	50.7
16	The University of Texas at Dallas	United States	50.6
17	Paris Diderot University – Paris 7	France	50.5
18	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States	49.9
19	University of Dundee	United Kingdom	49.4
19	University of Konstanz	Germany	49.4
21	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia	49.1
22	University of Calgary	Canada	48.6
23	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	48.4
24	University of Milan-Bicocca	Italy	47.9
25	Brunel University London	United Kingdom	47.8
26	University of Bremen	Germany	46.8
27	Simon Fraser University	Canada	46.6
28	Bilkent University	Turkey	46.0
29	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain	45.8
30	The University of Newcastle	Australia	45.7
31	Lappeenranta University of Technology	Finland	45.5
31	University of Wollongong	Australia	45.5
33	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	45.3
34	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden	45.1
35	University of South Australia	Australia	44.5
36	Montpellier University	France	44.2
37	Medical University of Vienna	Austria	43.7
37	Plymouth University	United Kingdom	43.7
39	University of Macau	Macau	42.6
40	Sharif University of Technology	Iran	42.4
41	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology	Taiwan	42.2
42	State University of Campinas	Brazil	42.0
42	University of Bath	United Kingdom	42.0
44	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark	41.3
45	Deakin University	Australia	40.0
46	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain	39.9
47	University of Stirling	United Kingdom	39.7
48	Charles Darwin University	Australia	39.5
49	National Sun Yat-Sen University	Taiwan	39.4
50	University of Tsukuba	Japan	39.3
51	Koç University	Turkey	39.2
51	Umeå University	Sweden	39.2
51	University of Crete	Greece	39.2
54	Ruhr University Bochum	Germany	38.9
55	University of Eastern Finland	Finland	38.8
56	University of Western Sydney	Australia	38.7
57	Aalborg University	Denmark	38.6
57	Bielefeld University	Germany	38.6
59	George Mason University	United States	38.5
59	Linköping University	Sweden	38.5
59	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany	38.5
59	University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad	Morocco	38.5
63	Isfahan University of Technology	Iran	38.3
64	University of Minho	Portugal	37.8
65	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1	France	37.6
65	Murdoch University	Australia	37.6
65	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia	37.6
65	University of Surrey	United Kingdom	37.6
69	Aveiro University	Portugal	37.4
70	Aston University	United Kingdom	37.1
71	University of Hertfordshire	United Kingdom	37.0
72	Bayreuth University	Germany	36.9
73	UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Norway	36.6
73	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	United States	36.6
75	Dublin City University	Ireland	36.5
75	La Trobe University	Australia	36.5
77	Flinders University	Australia	36.4
77	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom	36.4
79	Florida International University	United States	36.1
80	University of Rovira i Virgili	Spain	36.0
81	Curtin University	Australia	35.9
82	Griffith University	Australia	35.8
83	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	35.7
84	University of Rome III	Italy	35.6
85	Université du Québec à Montréal	Canada	35.4
85	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom	35.4
87	Johannes Kepler University of Linz	Austria	34.4
88	University of Vigo	Spain	33.5
89	New University of Lisbon	Portugal	33.4
90	Edith Cowan University	Australia	32.8
90	Tampere University of Technology	Finland	32.8
90	University of Ulsan	Republic of Korea	32.8
93	University of Kent	United Kingdom	32.6
94	Dublin Institute of Technology	Ireland	31.9
95	Ulster University	United Kingdom	31.8
96	Concordia University	Canada	31.6
97	City University London	United Kingdom	31.1
97	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain	31.1
97	RMIT University	Australia	31.1
100	National Yang-Ming University	Taiwan	31.0