2015 Best Universities in Oceania 

Our rankings of the 2015 Best Universities in Oceania are based exclusively on factors actual college freshmen said were most important to their college decision. According to the most recent nationwide survey published by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA , these factors include academic reputation, financial aid offerings, overall cost, and success of graduates in the post-college job market. Each of these factors were weighted equally in our ranking and data was derived from a variety of publicly available sources, including U.S. News & World Report , the National Center for Education Statistics , Teaching, Research, Citation Flow, Industry Income, International Outlook, Referring Domains, Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, and Trust Flow.

1     University of Melbourne, Australia

2     The Australian National University, Australia

3     The University of New South Wales, Australia

4     University of Sydney, Australia

5     Monash University, Australia

6     The University of Western Australia, Australia

7     The University of Queensland, Australia

8     University of Auckland, New Zealand

9    University of Adelaide, Australia

10   RMIT University, Australia

11   University of Otago, New Zealand

12   The University of Newcastle, Australia

13   Macquarie University, Australia

14   Deakin University, Australia

15   Queensland University of Technology, Australia

16   Curtin University of Technology, Australia

17   University of Tasmania, Australia

18   Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

19   University of Wollongong, Australia

20   Charles Sturt University, Australia

21   University of Canterbury, New Zealand

22   Murdoch University, Australia

23   Griffith University, Australia

24   University of South Australia, Australia

25   University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

26   University of Western Sydney, Australia

27   University of Waikato, New Zealand

28   Charles Darwin University, Australia

29   Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

30   Massey University, New Zealand

31   La Trobe University, Australia

32   Edith Cowan University, Australia

33   University of New England, Australia

34   James Cook University, Australia

35   Flinders University, Australia

36   University of Canberra, Australia

37   University of Southern Queensland, Australia

38   Victoria University, Australia

39   Southern Cross University, Australia

40   Central Queensland University, Australia

41   Australian Catholic University, Australia

42   Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

43   Bond University, Australia

44   Lincoln University, New Zealand

45   The University of the South Pacific, Fiji Islands

46   The University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia

47   University of Ballarat, Australia

48   University of Guam, Guam

49  Université de la Polynésie Française, French Polynesia

50   University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia