In the top 4% of universities in the world

James Cook University is ranked as one of the world's top universities based on 2012 assessments by one of the world's leading university ranking systems.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) puts JCU in top 301-400 of the more than 10,000 universities in the world, and in Asia and Pacific it places us in the top 100.

Why we rank so highly