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Best Universities Ranking

The Financial Review Best Universities Ranking celebrates universities that have excelled across four key pillars: research, teaching, career and equity.

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The University of Melbourne has been recognised as Australia’s leading university. It was also the top-ranked Australian university in the 2025 QS World University Rankings this year.

Australia’s top-ranked universities revealed

Find out which institutions performed best in key areas and the one that took out the overall top spot in the Financial Review Best Universities Ranking.

Roma Khodha.

Uni leading the way in the leap from study to work

Gaining a university degree is one thing. Turning it into a career is another challenge.

Professor Robyn Ward Professor Monash University.

Meet the researchers tackling big problems

Combining knowledge and expertise across disciplines is the new face of successful university research.

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Charles Darwin University.

Excelling in equity: Uni champions fair-go ethos

Charles Darwin University has been recognised for initiatives that open its doors – and it has many.

How the Best Universities Ranking is created

The Financial Review’s ranking of universities uses traditional measures of excellence alongside student satisfaction and equity data.

Cross-country road trip to achieve uni dream

For the second year in a row, Bond University on the Gold Coast has taken out the top spot for teaching in the Best Universities Ranking.

Edward Chung of TechnologyOne.

Australia well behind in R&D funding race

Our business sector does not value R&D and innovation nearly as much as our international peers.