Time Magazine has produced a ranking of the World's Top Universities. Note that this is from a different publisher and is a different ranking scheme to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Time claim their rankings are more relevant to students, but produce much the same results as Times & other ranking schemes. The Time & Times rankings have the same 8 universities in their top 10 for Australia. Also Time only rank 500 universities, compared to more than 5,000 by Webometrics. As with most such ranking schemes this seems more about selling advertising than helping students.
Time moves Curtin & James Cook Universities to the top 10, dropping University of Technology Sydney, and Macquarie University.- University of Queensland (6)
- University of Melbourne (1)
- University of Sydney (2)
- University of Western Australia (8)
- University of New South Wales (5)
- Australian National University (4)
- University of Adelaide (7)
- Monash University (3)
- Curtin University (13)
- James Cook University (24)
Time's ranking is based on a shortlist of one highly cited researcher in Clarivate, "among the most renowned and frequently mentioned institutions", or they applied to be on the list. The detailed ranking appears similar to other such schemes. These tend to emphasize research output, rather than education. Time appears to have tried to emphasize education more, with measures such as resource expenditure per student, faculty-to-student and staff-to-student ratios. There is no measure of what proportion of staff are qualified to teach. Essentially, these are measures of input, rather than output.
