the University of Melbourne in Australia

The University of Melbourne is the best university in Australia according to the world rankings.

It was ranked 37th in The Times, 31th by QS University Ranking and 60th in the ranking of Shanghai in 2011 globally. It is one of the most renowned institutions in the world!

To go even further, it is classified in the top 30 universities in the world regardless of the material or the proposed area. Each sector is potentially very attractive, and the university itself attracts thousands of international students every year.


The University of Melbourne campus
The university was founded in 1853 with 16 students and 3 teachers. Today, it has nearly 47,000 students and 6,500 teachers and has worldwide recognition in all areas of education it offers.
Nearly 12,000 students are international and represent a total of 120 different countries.


Melbourne University campus is represented by:

12 different dormitories for housing
The library has nearly 3.6 million books available in over 20 languages
Dozens of clubs and sports associations
11 different Faculties for each educational area
The 2nd largest research center across Australia

The University of Melbourne is also known for its large opening between the formations. Thus, a student will be obliged to choose 25% of its courses in a specialization other than the one he chose to prepare.
Thus, a business student can join the literary training, IT, arts or engineering. There are no limitations, each free to choose what he wants.


The advantage of this system is twofold: to allow everyone to be open to a different environment and a different network while gaining flexibility during your professional career, but also as part of your studies, the transition from training to another is facilitated.

UK. Oxford, the best university in the world

Oxford University is the best university in the world" , welcomes The Guardian . For the first time, a British university throne in first place in theranking Times Higher Education , which compares 987 higher education institutions worldwide. Oxford has relayed the California Institute of Technology - who has held the top spot for five consecutive years - into second place.

In Europe, the UK higher education is the envy: Cambridge University and Imperial College London as they are in the top 10, the newspaper reminds. The only European institution to be in the top 10 is the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland, all other places are occupied by US institutions like Princeton and Harvard.
60% of students come from the public

The Guardian welcomes also the fact that nearly 60% of Oxford students come from public secondary education, not the private elitist education. This percentage has never been higher, and is due to awareness and recruitment programs among disadvantaged students. According to a professor quoted as saying, "Oxford is a university that is open to a wide diversity of students" .
Brexit: what future for British universities?

The output of the United Kingdom of the European Union could, however, affect the quality of British universities, provides for the Financial Times . First, "the Brexit, European research grants may be cut off," recalls the economic newspaper. And until the issue of funding is uncertain, "the researchers may also have a tendency to leak collaboration with university based in the United Kingdom" .

Competition from Asian universities
In addition, "the enrollment of foreign students have already passed their peak," the paper recalls. At issue: competition from English institutions in Asia and the tightening of eligibility rules, which is related to "harsher attitudes -a-vis immigration " in the UK.

The solution to keep the top British universities? "Ensuring they remain part of the European research agenda" and to ensure that migration restrictions "do not impede or recruiting or academic collaboration." Finally we must continue to fund, "even, if necessary, replace European subsidies" .

University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley occupy the first three places of the Shanghai ranking. The first French University Pierre and Marie Curie, moved up to 39th place while Chinese universities are appearing for the first time in the first hundred of the ranking.

American universities continue to prance leading the Shanghai ranking published Monday. For the fourteenth consecutive year, Harvard arrives in 2016 at the head of the top 500 universities in the world conducted by the independent firm Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.

The first three places on the podium (and eight of the top ten ranking) are also occupied by US universities, since Stanford ranks second to last year, followed by Berkeley who wins a spot. First non-American, the British University Cambridge arrives 4th or one better than in 2015. Then there are the American MIT (5th) that goes down two places, and Princeton (6th like last year).
Six criteria considered

The Shanghai ranking, created in 2003, takes into account six criteria to distinguish 500 of the 1,200 establishments listed in the world, the number of Nobel among alumni, the number of highly cited researchers in their discipline or the number of publications in "Science" and "Nature". If the firm describes the ranking as "the most reliable", criteria oriented research and the life sciences, obscuring among other human and social sciences, are denounced by many European officials as a harmful way for their establishments.

Thus, only four other non-American institutions reach the top 20: Oxford in 7th place (13), University College London in 17th place (1), the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) in 19th place (+1) and the University of Tokyo in 20th (one well).
22 French schools in the top 500

French side, the University Pierre and Marie Curie (39th), Paris-Sud (46th) and the Ecole Normale Superieure (87th) rank among the first hundred. The French State Secretary for Higher Education and Research Thierry Mandon welcomed the maintenance of 22 institutions of his country in the first 500, which puts it in 6th position behind the United States, China , Germany, the UK and Australia.

This year marks the entrance, for the first time, Chinese universities in the first hundred of the ranking, with Tsinghua (58th) and Beijing (71). Singapore also reaches the Top 100, with the National University of Singapore in the 83rd position.

But the ranking has remained largely unchanged at the top, with nine of the top 20 universities have maintained their position, and nine are raised or lowered by one notch.