La Trobe University - Rankings

Rankings

La Trobe's world rankings have fluctuated over the years, and appears to be strongest in the arts and humanities, as is demonstrated by The Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In 2004, La Trobe was ranked overall 142nd of the world’s top 200 universities, and 13th in Australia. La Trobe failed to make the top 100 in the world for any area-specific rankings in 2004, but managed to pull in 33rd place in the top 40 universities in the world outside Europe and North America.

2005 was a well-ranking year for La Trobe University, where its world ranking rose to 98th place, placing it as one of the top 100 universities in the world, and it moved up to 11th place in Australia. It made a momentous leap to 23rd place in the world’s top arts and humanities universities, bringing it to rank 3rd best in Australia. It also reached ranking status in the world's top social science universities, coming in 68th in the world and 9th in Australia. It came in as the 86th best biomedical university in the world (10th in Australia), and moved up to 29th place in the top 50 universities in the world outside Europe and North America. In 2011 the university was assessed in terms of its research quality where the university exhibited great strength in the areas of arts and humanities, and biological and biotechnical sciences where it was ranked 8th and 5th in the nation. Currently number 1 in Australia for biochemistry.

Research produced by the Melbourne Institute in 2006 ranked Australian universities across seven main discipline areas: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, and Science. For each discipline, La Trobe University was ranked:

• R1 refers to Australian and overseas Academics' rankings in tables 3.1 - 3.7 of the report.
• R2 refers to the Articles and Research rankings in tables 5.1 - 5.7 of the report.
• No. refers to the total number of institutions in the table against which La trobe University is compared.