Summary

La Trobe University is a multi-campus university based in Victoria, Australia. With learning, teaching and research designed to enrich the world and a history of academic innovation, La Trobe is leading the way in higher education. Celebrating over 40 years of History In 1967, 552 students enrolled at La Trobe University, the third University to open in Victoria.It has grown to accommodate more than 26,000 students including approximately 3,500 international students from over 90 countries.

Ranking / Recognition

The International Dimension

La Trobe ranked in top 100 universities of the world

The widely respected Times Higher Education Supplement has ranked La Trobe University at 98 in its latest review of the top 200 universities of the world.

This represents a very significant rise from an already excellent rating of 142 in the 2004 exercise.

To figure so highly in such an independent evaluation is a remarkable achievement and, quite apart from the recognition of the quality of the academic staff, it demonstrates the importance of the international activity of the University and the value of such internationally recognised research centres as the Institute for Advanced Study (which includes the prestigious Centre for Linguistic Typology and will soon house also the Peking University-La Trobe University-Beijing Foreign Studies University Centre for China Studies).

The criteria utilised for the ranking included scores for peer review (40%), for numbers of international students (5%), for student/staff ratios (20%) and for citations (20%), and on the criterion of peer review alone La Trobe would have risen to seventy-third position, whilst on that of citations, it would have been placed equal eighty-first. The magnitude of the achievement is perhaps best appreciated by considering some of the older and more famous universities currently rated below La Trobe - for examples, Gottingen (114), Leiden (138), Birmingham (143), Nanjing (150), Bologna (159), Shanghai Jiao Tong (169) and Uppsala (180). Of course, the world of higher education is a volatile one and rankings can change quite sharply from year to year - so, whilst taking justifiable pride in its present position, La Trobe University will need to remain very active in research and internationally to maintain and, if possible, to enhance its position in the top 100.

Amongst the giants in Arts and Humanities

For the first time the Times Higher Education Supplement has also published a top 100 ranking for a number of discipline areas - namely Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Biomedicine, Science and Technology.

In Arts and Humanities La Trobe University, with a strong publication record and with a host of members of the learned Academies, has long been perceived as having a strong reputation worldwide. This perception is now strikingly endorsed with the University securing the rank of 23 in the Times Higher Education Supplement report (equal with Monash University). This is a quite brilliant achievement, which sets La Trobe amongst the world leaders, and which brings deserved recognition to the scholars in the various fields of study. Again, of course, the possible volatility of rankings from year to year needs to be acknowledged, but to be rated above such world famous institutions as Heidelberg, Johns Hopkins, Bologna, Boston, Manchester, and the National University of Singapore is an extraordinarily compelling testimony to academic strength.

In the Top 100 in Social Sciences and Biomedicine

La Trobe was also ranked in the top 100 world wide in two further disciplinary groups. In Social Sciences the University achieved a world ranking of 68 and it was ninth in Australia. This review also included a citation index, which is a highly significant indicator of research quality, and on this criterion alone La Trobe University would have been placed in forty-third position globally and in fourth position in Australia, after Sydney, the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University.

In the area of Biomedicine, La Trobe also achieved a place in the top 100, being ranked at 86. This is eloquent testimony to the strength of the Biosciences in the University and it certainly provides strong underpinning for La Trobe in its quest for a Medical School. All in all, this is an extremely impressive performance of which everyone in the University should be proud. In short it means that La Trobe is acknowledged as a leading university on the world stage.

Courses Offered

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Scholarships offered

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Contact Information

Address : La Trobe International, La Trobe University,
Bundoora,
Victoria,
Australia - 3086