Joondalup campus at sunrise.
ECU is firmly placed in the top 100 young universities in the world by the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings.
This year, ECU's upward trajectory has seen our university jump more than 10 places on the list of the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger. This global ranking judges universities across all their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook – to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available.
The 2023 ranking includes 605 universities, up from 539 in 2022. In 2022, ECU was ranked 94. In rankings released on 3 July 2023, ECU is ranked 83, an improvement of 11 ranking points.
Nationally
Australia's young universities have outperformed Germany's for the first time in five years to become the world's highest-scoring young institutions on average.
Globally
The number one university for 2023 was Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, with a score of 79.1. UTS remained the top placed Australian university, ranked 9 globally with a score of 66.4.
Methodology
For the 2023 rankings, universities submitted 2020 student and staff data, so student-to-staff ratio, doctorates awarded, income, and the three international indicators were impacted for the first time by the COVID-19 pandemic. The research outputs and citation data spanned 2017 to 2021 (2022 for citations), and the reputation surveys were held between November 2021 and February 2022.
This ranking uses the same data and indicators as the THE World University Rankings (WUR), with different weightings to acknowledge that young universities have had less time to build their reputation.
