  {"id":19716,"date":"2021-06-09T00:03:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-celebrates-two-milestones-earns-qs-5-stars-plus-and-cracks-top-200-in-prestigious-qs-rankings\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:03:24","slug":"curtin-celebrates-two-milestones-earns-qs-5-stars-plus-and-cracks-top-200-in-prestigious-qs-rankings","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-celebrates-two-milestones-earns-qs-5-stars-plus-and-cracks-top-200-in-prestigious-qs-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin celebrates two milestones:  Earns QS 5 Stars Plus and cracks top 200 in prestigious QS Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ is celebrating two major milestones\u2013 achieving a QS Five Stars Plus rating, the highest available for a tertiary institution and jumping into the world\u2019s top 200 in the QS World University Rankings (QSWUR) 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Curtin is only one of three universities in Australia to achieve the QS Five Stars Plus rating<\/p>\n<p>The result followed a comprehensive evaluation by QS across a range of areas including research, employability, teaching, facilities, internationalisation, inclusiveness and innovation. A Five Stars Plus institution must achieve five stars across all categories.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-Chancellor Professor Hayne said the rating confirms Curtin\u2019s excellence, agility, and resilience even in times of extraordinary change and uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur performance in this QS assessment shows Curtin\u2019s ever-growing reputation for delivering the highest standards of teaching and learning to ensure all students achieve their potential and maximise opportunities during their time at university,\u201d Professor Hayne said.<\/p>\n<p>Curtin also rose 23 places from last year to be ranked 194<sup>th <\/sup>globally, and 11th in Australia in the prestigious QSWUR which evaluates the world\u2019s top 1300 universities based on metrics of academic reputation, employer reputation, research performance and internationalisation.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Hayne said Curtin\u2019s sustained climb since 2006 is underpinned by the University\u2019s commitment to excellence in research, teaching and impactful industry engagement.\u00a0 It also highlights the importance of Curtin\u2019s international footprint in Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai, and Mauritius.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis outstanding result cements Curtin among the world\u2019s top institutions and demonstrates the scale of global impact the University has through our world-class teaching and research,\u201d Professor Hayne said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s extremely encouraging to see Curtin making significant strides in these global rankings and we can be especially proud of our research impact results- which now place us well within the world\u2019s top one percent of universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurtin strives to provide a world-class and industry-relevant learning experience for our students who come from across the nation and across the globe. So it is particularly pleasing to see our substantial rise in employer recognition which acknowledges the high-quality of our graduates as does our ranking as Western Australia\u2019s top university for graduate full-time employment and starting salary in the 2021 Good Universities Guide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth our QS Five Stars Plus rating and QS World Ranking results are clear indicators of Curtin\u2019s ability to harness our strengths as a global and innovative institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results are released by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/qs-world-university-rankings?utm_source=topnavhttps:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/qs-world-university-rankings\">QS World University Rankings<\/a>\u00a0visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/qs-world-university-rankings?utm_source=topnavhttps:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/qs-world-university-rankings\">here<\/a>. For more on the QS Stars visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/qs-stars?utm_source=topnav\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ is celebrating two major milestones\u2013 achieving a QS Five Stars Plus rating and jumping into the world\u2019s top 200 in the QS World University Rankings 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4373,"featured_media":12545,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-19716","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/curtin-perth-campus-1000x500.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Vanessa","last_name":"Beasley","display_name":"Vanessa Beasley"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/19716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/19716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19716"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=19716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}