Otago Uni in top 300 in world

The University of Otago is ranked in the top 300 universities in the world in this year's influential Academic Ranking of World Universities.

The ranking, which put Auckland, Otago, Massey, Canterbury and Victoria in the top 500, was considered an important factor in the global battle to attract international students.

"No other country has 63 percent of its universities included on that list," said Robert Stevens, chief executive of Education New Zealand, the industry body for export education. "We are absolutely leading the pack."

In the ranking list released today, Auckland and Otago were ranked between 201 and 302.

Otago was in prestigious company, bracketed with the likes of Trinity College, Dublin, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Massey, Canterbury and Victoria were ranked between 402 and 501.

The United States dominated the top 100, but had only 8 percent of its universities make the top 500.

US universities took the top three rankings, with Harvard ranked top, ahead of Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and Cambridge University, in England.

The ranking was released by the Centre for World Class Universities at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

It took into account a number of factors including the quality of research papers produced and the standing of academic staff.

 

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