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Australian National University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 106–352 of 2,287 · score 54.5
Research Index =165

How it scores

Research
93
Alumni outcomes
89
Admissions & earnings
12/38

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country (Australia).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Median graduate salary (QILT)
A$79,100 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
20 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
4 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
12,024 / 23,700 src

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
83.5
B · Strength
81.7

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 204. On strength alone: =239. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
12.7% (12.1%–13.3%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.5% (1.3%–1.8%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
848
All papers (fractional count)
6,672
International co-authored
62.6%
Open access
69.2%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
5 (0.25 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences244range 173–357 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=72range 47–139 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=384range 259–550 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=105range 75–155 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=232range 136–357 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%2006–2009: 84 of 5712020–2023: 165 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

=165Research Index 2026
29QS 2027
77THE 2027
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

Alumni laureates
2
Staff laureates
4

Alumni: 2 Nobel. Most recent: Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Nobel Medicine, 1996), William Lawrence Bragg (Nobel Physics, 1915). Counted from Wikidata (CC0). Alumni laureates count toward the overall ranking per student (10 of 65 global weight points); staff laureates are shown for context only.