The Group of Eight does not dominate top spots in a new, and different, ranking

After last week’s ARC Engagement and Impact and Excellence in Research for Australia rankings university marketing engineers were worried that their superlative generators could not take any more work. But orders are orders and so yesterday they started up the spin cyclers to promote the new Times Higher impact rankings, which list universities on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The University of Auckland is global number one with ANZ institutions in the top 100 being;

 Western Sydney U (11^th in the world), Uni Wollongong (=13^th), Auckland Uni Tech (=16), Uni SA (=22), Uni Sydney (=25), Massey U (38^th), James Cook U (=39^th), Edith Cowan U (42^nd), Monash U (45^th), Uni Queensland and QUT (=46th), Macquarie U (63^rd), RMIT (82^nd) and U Tas  (96^th). There is extra good news in scores on the 11 SDGs Time Higher ranked, which include, “peace, justice and strong institutions,” (Uni Auckland 7^th, Uni Wollongong 11^th, Edith Cowan U and James Cook U =22). On “reduced inequalities” (James Cook U, Western Sydney U and Uni SA are the world top three).