Students, staff and alumni proud of Curtin’s achievement

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MIRI: Curtin University Malaysia, the largest international campus of Curtin University is pleased that Curtin continues to receive global recognition in the QS World University Rankings by Subject, making its students, staff and alumni to be proud to be involved with one of the leading education providers in the world.

Curtin Malaysia Pro Vice- Chancellor and President, Professor Jim Mienczakowski said that the latest achievement in the ranking is a testament to Curtin’s strong connections with industry, high quality research and wide range of innovative courses, including at its international branch campuses. He added that Curtin achieved outstanding results in the latest subject ranking, including second in the world for Engineering-Mineral and Mining, up 17 places from last year.

The university also achieved ranking in 25 subjects, seven more than last year and ranked as a top 100 university in seven subjects: Engineering – Mineral and Mining, Architecture/Built Environment, Art and Design, Nursing, Earth and Marine Sciences, Education, and Sports-related Subjects. Sportsrelated Subjects is a new ranking category for 2017 and Curtin is positioned in the 51-100 band.

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The university is also ranked for the first time in Agriculture and Forestry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Psychology, Materials Science, Economics and Econometrics, and Physics and Astronomy. This year QS provides a ranking on 46 subjects which are categorised in the five broad disciplines of Arts and Humanities, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences and Management.

The ranking assesses university performance across four areas – research, teaching, employability and internationalisation – and looks at six performance indicators, including academic reputation and student-to-faculty ratio.

He said Curtin also aimed to ensure that i ts campuses in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore are viewed as equally important and connections and collaborations across locations are becoming more embedded in their daily practices, including collaborative research, development and internationalisation of courses, and bi-directional delivery of course materials between campuses.

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