The University of Auckland ranked 5th in the world for sustainability. Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook
Auckland University remains the clear frontrunner as the country's top university, in the latest international rankings.
The QS World University Rankings for 2025 have been released and the University of Auckland has risen to 65 - its highest placing in more than a decade and the only New Zealand university to make it into the top 100.
The university ranked 68 last year.
Auckland University also rose to 5 in sustainability rankings for 2024. The university was 10th in the world for sustainability in 2023, the first year the measurement was recorded.
University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater said the rankings were a proud achievement for all staff and students.
"We are focused on nurturing the next generation of leaders, innovators and changemakers. We want to ensure our graduates are equipped to make meaningful contributions to a rapidly changing society," she said in a statement.
How other New Zealand universities ranked
214 University of Otago
235 University of Waikato
=239 Massey University
244 Victoria University of Wellington
=261 University of Canterbury
=371 Lincoln University
412 Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Which universities are the best in the world?
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2 Imperial College London
3 University of Oxford
4 Harvard University
5 University of Cambridge
6 Stanford University
7 ETH Zurich
8 National University of Singapore (NUS)
9 UCL (University College London)
10 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
The highest ranked Australian university was The University of Melbourne on 13.