University of Melbourne

How it scores

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.

Its in-country figure is excluded (see the note below), so it is placed on the global measures only.

Note: Its undergraduate salary is excluded: most of its professional degrees are graduate-entry, so its undergraduate cohort isn't comparable.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Median graduate salary (QILT) (excluded; see note)

A$69,200 src

Alumni founders of VC-backed companies (PitchBook)

323 src

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)

28 src

Heads of state or government (Wikidata)

5 src

Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni

not on the published top lists; estimated

Students (undergraduate / total)

32,513 / 74,714 src

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

Research Index

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =199. On strength alone: 43. 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

13.2% (12.9%–13.6%)

Papers in the top 1% of their field

1.3% (1.2%–1.5%)

Top-10% papers (fractional count)

2,295

All papers (fractional count)

17,336

International co-authored

56.8%

Open access

69.6%

Papers from 2020–23 since retracted

25 (0.50 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

Position over time

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.