If you’re in the tertiary education game or simply interested in how your uni stacks up against the world’s best, the Times Higher Education World University Ranking report released yesterday is where it’s at. Judged on teaching, research, knowledge transfer (aka the imparting of knowledge to students) and international outlook, the editors say they use 13 “carefully calibrated performance indicators” to develop an institution’s ranking. In Oz, Melbourne Uni is the top-ranked, coming in 34th internationally. Then it’s Monash (44), Uni of Queensland (53), Sydney Uni (54th) and ANU (62) rounding out the top 5. When it comes to the most-represented countries on the list, Australia was overtaken by China to claim the 4th spot. And internationally, the top 5 spots are hogged by UK and US institutions: Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).