The Hardman Rankings

How it scores

Research
80
Alumni outcomes
74
Admissions & earnings
=15/38

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$78,300 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
7 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
1 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
13,679 / 23,887 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
63.3
B · Strength
59.4

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 464. On strength alone: =530. 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
11.1% (10.4%–11.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.0% (0.8%–1.3%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
402
All papers (fractional count)
3,613
International co-authored
50.8%
Open access
63.0%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
3 (0.28 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=261range 195–392 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=503range 356–658 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science–fewer than 200 papers
Physical sciences & engineering=855range 615–1130 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=464range 333–628 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%bottom2006–2009: 451 of 5712020–2023: 458 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

458Research 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

Alumni laureates
1
Staff laureates
0

Alumni: 1 Fields Medal. Most recent: Terence Tao (Fields Medal, 2006). 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.