Academic Ranking of World Universities

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• Curtin is ranked in the top one per cent of universities worldwide in the highly regarded Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2025.

Recorded placements 149

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

Rank	Institution	Claim
1	Harvard University	1st in the world
2	Stanford University	2nd in the world
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3rd in the world
4	University of Cambridge	4th in the world
5	University of California, Berkeley	5th in the world
6	Princeton University	6th in the world
7	University of Oxford	7th in the world
8	Columbia University	8th in the world
9	University of Chicago	9th in the world
10	California Institute of Technology	10th in the world
11	Yale University	11th in the world
12	Cornell University	12th in the world
13	Université Paris-Saclay	13th in the world
=14	University of Pennsylvania	14th in the world
=14	University of California, Los Angeles	14th in the world
16	University of Washington	16th in the world
17	University College London	17th in the world
18	Tsinghua University	18th in the world
19	ETH Zurich	19th in the world
20	University of California, San Diego	20th in the world
21	University of California, San Francisco	21st in the world
22	Peking University	22nd in the world
23	Johns Hopkins University	23rd in the world
=24	Zhejiang University	24th in the world
=24	University of Toronto	24th in the world
26	New York University	26th in the world
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	27th in the world
28	Washington University in St. Louis	28th in the world
29	Imperial College London	29th in the world
30	University of Tokyo	30th in the world
31	Northwestern University	31st in the world
32	Rockefeller University	32nd in the world
33	PSL University	33rd in the world
34	University of Copenhagen	34th in the world
=35	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	35th in the world
=35	University of Wisconsin-Madison	35th in the world
37	University of Melbourne	37th in the world
38	University of Edinburgh	38th in the world
39	University of Science and Technology of China	39th in the world
40	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	40th in the world
=41	Karolinska Institute	41st in the world
=41	Fudan University	41st in the world
=43	Kyoto University	43rd in the world
=43	EPFL	43rd in the world
45	Technical University of Munich	45th in the world
46	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	46th in the world
47	University of Texas at Austin	47th in the world
48	Duke University	48th in the world
=49	University of Colorado Boulder	49th in the world
=49	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	49th in the world
51	University of Manchester	51st in the world
52	University of Minnesota	52nd in the world
53	National University of Singapore	53rd in the world
54	University of British Columbia	54th in the world
55	Sorbonne University	55th in the world
57	University of Maryland, College Park	57th in the world
59	Heidelberg University	59th in the world
60	Utrecht University	60th in the world
62	University of Hong Kong	62nd in the world
65	University of Zurich	65th in the world
66	Vanderbilt University	66th in the world
67	King's College London	67th in the world
68	University of Southern California	68th in the world
=73	McGill University	73rd in the world
=73	University of Queensland	73rd in the world
76	Monash University	76th in the world
79	University of Sydney	79th in the world
81	University of New South Wales	81st in the world
84	Nanyang Technological University	84th in the world
=87	Seoul National University	87th in the world
=87	KU Leuven	87th in the world
89	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	89th in the world
91	University of Bristol	91st in the world
95	City University of Hong Kong	95th in the world
100	Purdue University	100th in the world
=101	University of Alberta	101st in the world
=101	University of Amsterdam	101st in the world
=101	University of Sao Paulo	101st in the world
=101	London School of Economics and Political Science	101st in the world
=101	University of Vienna	101st in the world
=101	Australian National University	101st in the world
=101	Carnegie Mellon University	101st in the world
=101	Chinese University of Hong Kong	101st in the world
=101	University of Pittsburgh	101st in the world
=101	Brown University	101st in the world
=101	Osaka University	101st in the world
=101	University of Warwick	101st in the world
=101	University of Nottingham	101st in the world
=101	University of Birmingham	101st in the world
=101	University of Western Australia	101st in the world
=101	Lund University	101st in the world
=101	Rice University	101st in the world
=101	Boston University	101st in the world
=151	University of Sheffield	151st in the world
=151	Yonsei University	151st in the world
=151	Delft University of Technology	151st in the world
=151	Georgia Institute of Technology	151st in the world
=151	University of Glasgow	151st in the world
=151	University of Montpellier	151st in the world
=151	Institute of Science Tokyo	151st in the world
=151	University of Montreal	151st in the world
=151	University of Leeds	151st in the world
=151	Case Western Reserve University	151st in the world
=151	Tel Aviv University	151st in the world
=201	Deakin University	201st in the world
=201	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	201st in the world
=201	Korea University	201st in the world
=201	Swinburne University of Technology	201st in the world
=201	Tohoku University	201st in the world
=201	University of Technology Sydney	201st in the world
=201	Curtin University	201st in the world
=201	Durham University	201st in the world
=201	KAIST	201st in the world
=201	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	201st in the world
=201	Politecnico di Milano	201st in the world
=201	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	201st in the world
=201	National Autonomous University of Mexico	201st in the world
=201	University of Southampton	201st in the world
=201	Trinity College Dublin	201st in the world
=201	University of Buenos Aires	201st in the world
=201	University of Auckland	201st in the world
=201	Queen Mary University of London	201st in the world
=201	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	201st in the world
=201	RWTH Aachen University	201st in the world
=301	Griffith University	301st in the world
=301	RMIT University	301st in the world
=301	Western Sydney University	301st in the world
=301	James Cook University	301st in the world
=301	University of St Andrews	301st in the world
=301	University of Wollongong	301st in the world
=301	Queensland University of Technology	301st in the world
=301	Macquarie University	301st in the world
=401	Flinders University	401st in the world
=401	University of Newcastle	401st in the world
=401	La Trobe University	401st in the world
=401	University of Hawaii at Manoa	401st in the world
=401	University of Konstanz	401st in the world
=401	University of Otago	401st in the world
=401	Universitat Politecnica de Valencia	401st in the world
=501	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile	501st in the world
=501	Australian Catholic University	501st in the world
601	Hacettepe University	601st in the world
=701	University of Southern Queensland	701st in the world
=701	University of the Sunshine Coast	701st in the world
=701	Brunel University of London	701st in the world
=701	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya	701st in the world
801	Murdoch University	801st in the world
=901	Edith Cowan University	901st in the world
=901	Bond University	901st in the world