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Curtin University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 153–578 of 2,287 · score 50.0
Research Index =132

How it scores

Research
94
Alumni outcomes
49
Admissions & earnings
=6/38

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$80,000 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
4 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
37,371 / 54,660 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
89.6
B · Strength
78.8

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =127. On strength alone: =277. 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
13.7% (13.0%–14.4%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.6% (1.4%–1.9%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
728
All papers (fractional count)
5,316
International co-authored
65.6%
Open access
63.7%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
2 (0.12 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 sciences=627range 481–768 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=103range 68–176 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=128range 82–258 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering75range 50–116 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=58range 34–112 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%top 30%2006–2009: 399 of 5712020–2023: 132 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

=132Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–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

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.