Our Performance

World rankings

The University of Adelaide is ranked in the world's top 100 universities. We are recognised globally as a leading research university.

This is measured by the best-known world university ranking methodologies available 鈥� Times Higher Education, QS World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

Our world ranking performance

Quick facts

• Consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world鈥檚 universities.
• 6 specialist research institutes.
• Approximately 40 research centres.
• 110 Rhodes Scholars (to date).
• 1625 academic research experts.
• 2340 research students.
• Supported 700+ start ups since 2001.
• 67聽research fields rated at or above world standard (Excellence in Research Australia 2018).
• 41 research fields achieved maximum rating 5 out of 5 (Excellence in Research Australia 2018).

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)

The University of Adelaide is a world leader in fields that underpin innovation across industries critical to our State鈥檚 and our community鈥檚 future, and in areas that translate to benefits for society.

The high quality of our research across a聽vast array of fields was recognised in the 2018聽Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) evaluation, conducted by the Australian Research Council (ARC).

The ERA results released in March 2019 provide a comprehensive assessment of the University鈥檚 research outputs for the period 2014-2018 and demonstrate that the University is a clear world leader in research.聽

More than 22,500 individual research outputs by academic staff and affiliates of the University were assessed, including published papers, authored and edited books, book chapters, conference papers, and creative works.

The University now has 67 research sub-fields (100%) that are assessed to be world-class or above, including research in engineering, mathematics, science, medical and health sciences, agricultural sciences, artificial intelligence, and the arts.

Highlights

• 100% of the University's research sub-fields were assessed as being 鈥渁t or above world standard".
• Across all sub-disciplines of research assessed, the latest ERA has found that 91自拍 has:
  • 41 research fields rated 5 鈥撀爓ell above world standard聽鈥� the maximum rating
  • 16 research fields rated 4 鈥撀燼bove world standard
  • 10 research fields rated 3 鈥撀燼t world standard.

We have seen a significant lift in both volume and quality of our research outputs, summarised in the table below: