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The University of Queensland was the top-ranked Australian uni, coming in equal-10th with the University of Tokyo.
UQ vice-chancellor and president Professor Peter Høj said it was fitting that a leading university in a resource-rich nation was among the world’s best in a mining subject.
US universities dominated the top spots, with the Colorado School of Mines named the best place in the world to obtain a mining engineering degree.
It was followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of California, Berkeley, Imperial College of London, ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong.
A number of other Australian unis were in the list.
The University of New South Wales was 16th, followed by Curtin University (19th), the University of Melbourne (21st), the University of Western Australia (33rd), the University of Adelaide (35th), the University of Sydney (37th), and Monash University (39th).
Queensland University of Technology and the University of Wollongong also made the top 100.
The rankings were compiled using the expert opinion of 76,798 academics and 44,426 employers, as well as the analysis of 28.5 million research papers and over 113 million citations.
QS evaluated 713 global institutions that provide a degree in mineral/mining engineering, internally ranking 403 of these based on the data received, before publishing the world’s top 100 institutions in the final rankings.
