When Australian National University made it back into the top 20 of the QS World University Ranking last week it was widely reported in the mainstream news. Rankings drive the esteem in which a university is held and that drives student demand, especially in the lucrative foreign student market.
But a new ranking, also out last week, the Thomson Reuters’ World’s Most Innovative Universities, got a mention in The Australian but not much elsewhere. Perhaps that’s because it is new, but it might also have failed to register because not a single Australian university made the top 100.
