Australia’s best universities revealed

The worlds best universities have been names with a number of Aussie institutions on the list. (Source: Getty)

A number of Australian educational institutions have been named among the best in the world, with five universities making it into the top 50.

Featuring 1,300 universities from around the world, this year's rankings were the largest ever, according to QS Top Universities.

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Each institution was assessed according to six key metrics:

1. Academic reputation

2. Employer reputation

3. Faculty/student ratio

4. Citations per faculty

5. International faculty ratio

6. International student ratio

Academic reputation accounted for 40 per cent of the overall score.

The figures are based on the QS Academic Survey, which collated the expert opinions of more than 130,000 individuals in the higher-education space regarding teaching and research quality at the world’s universities.

While Australia doesn't make it into the top 10 in the world, 38 Aussie universities are featured on the entire list.

The top 10 universities in Australia are:

1. Australian National University

2. University of Melbourne

3. University of Sydney

4. University of New South Wales

5. University of Queensland

6. Monash University

7. University of Western Australia

8. University of Adelaide

9. University of Technology Sydney

10. University of Wollongong

ANU was ranked equal 27th on a global scale. University of Melbourne was number 37, followed by University of Sydney at 38.

UNSW was number 43 and the University of Queensland was ranked number 47 in the world.

The top 10 universities in the world are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2. University of Oxford

3. Stanford University

4. University of Cambridge

5. Harvard University

6. California Institute of Technology

7. Imperial College London

8. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

9. UCL

10. University of Chicago

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