Lincoln University has improved its QS ( world University Rankings) Rankings, by 15 places out of 1673 institutions analysed on the world stage from 93 countries.
New Zealand’s smallest but oldest Land Based University is again punching above its weight. Especially gratifying when 143 additional institutions joined in this latest survey, it now ranks 372 out of 1673, as the data was collected during the Covid crisis 2020, this gives the University rankings a special value.
What the rankings measure?
The QS Ranking assesses academic and employer reputation based on annual surveys, ratio of academic staff to students, proportion of international staff and students and citations per faculty member.
Key Points.
· The overall ranking of 372 for Lincoln University
· Moved up the QS rankings by 15 places in 2022
· Lincoln University performed among the top 29% of institutions in the 2022 QS World University Rankings
· Went up by one place in the New Zealand University rankings to 6th place. Only three universities had an increase in ranking places; University of Canterbury (12 places) and Lincoln University (15 places) and the University of Waikato (2 places)
· ‘Small Universities’ ranking increased to 15th, due in part to 4 small French Universities and 2 small Italian universities not participating in the 2022 ranking exercise. All six Universities ranked ahead of Lincoln University in the 2021 exercise
· Our strongest indicator remains the International student's measure – ranked at 43 globally but it is a decrease from our 35 ranking in 2021 (2019 student data), unfortunately, it only is 5% of the final score The international student number decreased by 161 FTE in 2020 due to the closing of borders on 20th March 2020
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