The university is now the 184th-best university in the world, and the second-best university in New Zealand, behind the University of Auckland which has risen to 81st in the global rankings.
‘‘Otago is pleased to retain its place in the world’s top 200 universities in the QS ranking, and along with this its position as one of the country’s two top-ranked universities,’’ a university spokeswoman said yesterday.
‘‘While our placing of 184th is a slight drop from last year, small year-to-year variations in ranking position are normal.’’
Only the University of Auckland, Massey University (272) and Auckland University of Technology (437) improved on their rankings, compared with 2019.
In total, the QS global higher education analysts rank eight of New Zealand’s universities in the published tables among the world’s top 1000 universities.
The QS World University Rankings are the world’s most consulted and covered source of comparative information about university performance.
New Zealand’s universities performed best in QS’ measure of faculty internationalisation levels, in which they achieved a mean score of 98.6/100.
The University of Otago and Auckland University of Technology both achieved perfect scores (100/100) for QS’ international faculty ratio indicator.
Unfortunately, all eight of New Zealand’s universities declined in QS’ measure of graduate employability, and the rankings of three-quarters of the universities declined when it came to their teaching capacity, relative to global competitors.
The top 10 universities in the world, according to the rankings, are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1), Stanford University (2), Harvard University (3), the California Institute of Technology (4), the University of Oxford (5), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (6), the University of Cambridge (7), the Imperial College London (8), the University of Chicago (9) and the University College London (10).
