This page is a snapshot of university rankings, both nationally and internationally, published in the last three years. It includes ratings from graduate or student surveys and other international quality measures.
Australian university graduates are surveyed annually about the quality of their university experience and subsequent employment outcomes. The resulting scores are translated into star ratings and are published in the Good Universities Guide.
In the 2025 guide, ECU has maintained its long-standing 5-star rating for undergraduate teaching quality. It’s now 18 straight years!
ECU was also rated 5 stars for undergraduate:
Notably, ECU is rated #1 in Western Australia across all six survey categories for undergraduates.
For postgraduate study, ECU is again rated five stars for overall experience, teaching quality, student support, skills development, and learning resources.
Our university is rated number one in Western Australia for overall experience, student support and full-time employment for postgraduate coursework students.
For a range of fields of study or subject areas defined by the Good Universities Guide for undergraduate and postgraduate study, ECU rates highly:
THE Young University Rankings lists the world’s best universities aged 50 years old or younger.
ECU is 33 years old in 2024 and is again ranked in the top 100 with an improved position on 2023, as was the case in 2022.
Young universities are judged across their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook – to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available.
Our undergraduate students have rated ECU top public university in Australia for their overall experience, skills development and student support and services in the 2023 QILT Student Experience Survey (published 2024).
Of all Western Australian universities, ECU is top for undergraduate teaching quality, overall experience, skills development, student support and services and learning resources survey categories.
We also ranked Australia’s top public university for postgraduate overall experience and skills development and ranked second in teaching quality, student support and services and learning resources.
The Student Experience Survey National report is the only comprehensive survey of current higher education students in Australia. It’s based on hundreds of thousands of surveys completed in 2023 by students from all universities across Australia, both public and private.
Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching, or QILT, is an independent federal government survey that’s been administered annually since 2012.
In the 2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject, ECU once again received
rankings in six subjects:
Australian university graduates are surveyed annually about the quality of their university experience and subsequent employment outcomes. The resulting scores are translated into star ratings and are published in the Good Universities Guide.
In the 2023 guide, ECU has maintained its long-standing 5-star rating for teaching quality. It’s now 16 straight years!
ECU was also rated 5 stars for undergraduate:
For the second time, ECU has been rated 5 stars for postgraduate overall experience, as well as skills development, learning resources, student support and teaching quality.
Best in Australia discipline rankings
ECU has achieved 5 stars and the highest ranking in Australia across these categories and disciplines:
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings lists the top universities in the world based on their performance in teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The latest rankings for 2023 have seen ECU ranked in the top 400 universities in the world for the first time, marking a jump of two category levels from featuring in the top 600 in 2019.
A range of ECU disciplines have ranked globally in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject for 2023:
Our students have rated ECU Australia’s top public university for undergraduate teaching quality for the 7th year in a row in the latest QILT rankings (2021 Student Experience Survey).
In fact, ECU topped the rankings for public universities in Australia for undergraduate overall experience, teaching quality, skills development and learning resources.
ECU is also the top ranked university (public or private) in Western Australia for undergraduate overall experience, student support and learning resources.
Additionally, our international undergraduate students have rated ECU the top public university in Australia for overall experience.
The Student Experience Survey National report is the only comprehensive survey of current higher education students in Australia. It is based on hundreds of thousands of surveys completed in 2021 by students from all universities across Australia, both public and private.
ECU continues to be highly regarded internationally for Sports related subjects, again being ranked 30th in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022.
Among Australian universities, we’re ranked sixth for Sports related subjects.
For Nursing studies, ECU is again ranked in the global top 100.
Our Performing Arts program also ranks in the top 100 worldwide, equating to second among Australian universities.
Petroleum Engineering has again ranked in the top 150 world-wide.
ECU’s Education subjects are ranked in the 251-300 band globally.
Business and Management studies have been ranked for the first time, appearing in the world-wide 501-550 band.
Good Universities Guide
Australian university graduates are surveyed annually about the quality of their university experience and subsequent employment outcomes. The resulting scores are translated into star ratings and are published in the Good Universities Guide.
In the 2022 guide, ECU has maintained its long-standing 5-star rating for teaching quality. It’s now 15 straight years! The record is only matched by one other public university in Australia.
ECU was also rated 5 stars and ranked top WA university for undergraduate:
For the first time, ECU has been rated 5 stars for postgraduate overall experience and the top WA university.
Other postgraduate 5-star ratings included skills development, learning resources, student support and teaching quality.
High ranking disciplines
ECU has achieved 5 stars and the highest ranking in Australia across these categories and disciplines:
Read more about our 2022 ratings
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
ECU has maintained its position in the top 500 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2022.
The World University Rankings is an annual list of more than 1000 of the top universities, ranked for their teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
This ranking places ECU in the top 2.5% of universities in the world.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject
A range of ECU disciplines have ranked globally in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject for 2022:
Times Higher Education Impact Rankings
ECU’s reputation as a top university has shone through in the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings for 2021.
The University was ranked in the top 50 for Gender Equality (24th), Good Health and Wellbeing (24th) and Quality Education (41st).
This is the third year of the THE Impact Rankings, which examine the contributions of universities towards the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. These goals are a call-to-action by all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.
Read more about the THE Impact rankings.
QS World University Rankings Top 150 under 50
ECU has been listed in the QS Top 150 under 50 rankings for 2020. The rankings cover the world’s 150 leading institutions founded after 1967.
ECU was established in 1991 and appears in the 101-150 category.
