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Ken, Where does Greenwich University, based in the sovereign nation of Norfolk Island, fit into this schematic? Russell
It's interesting that this listing, which seems to divide Australian universites into bands with the schools listed alphabetically within the bands, is basically a listing of universities by AGE, from oldest to youngest. There are the 19th century foundations, plus ANU. Until well into this century there was basically one university per Australian state, with perhaps a second like UNSW in the larger capitals. Then there were a group of roughly 1950's-1960's additions. Then a new group started appearing in the late 80's and 90's, up to the present. Former colleges of advanced education or whatever they were called, upgraded to university status. Charles Sturt, So. Queensland and the like. My feeling is that a lot of this is just a matter of name recognition. The newer and smaller places aren't as well known as the larger and older places. Just as in the United States, when asked to name "good" universities, people well say "I don't know... I guess..." and then produce a list of the 'usual suspects', the schools with high profiles. It would be entirely different if you asked subject specialists about good programs in their research specialty. But if you asked a LOT of subject specialists about a lot of different specialties, then statistically averaged the results, you would probably start to approximate the age/name-recognition list. That's because the older/larger schools offer a wider array of academic programs, being older and larger. So there is a greater chance of finding a productive doctoral level program in your specialty (whatever that is) at one of them. Which is a VERY different thing than saying that research done at a newer/smaller school is necessarily of a lower standard because of the name of the school it occurred at.
Goode University Guide, access $11 per month... I am not costing them any money since this info is in the "public" section.
Greenwich is obviously off the scale. The question is whether it is off the scale at the low end or the high end.