By Peter Nicholl

In my column last week, I wrote that Waikato University’s ranking of 250th in the QR global rankings of universities placed it sixth amongst New Zealand’s eight universities.

That was wrong. It was fifth. Its 2023 ranking was very close to two other New Zealand universities, Massey at 239 and Victoria at 241. Waikato University was also the big mover amongst the NZ universities in 2023 rising a remarkable 81 places from its 2022 ranking of 331.

Two other strong results for Waikato University were that it was ranked number one amongst New Zealand universities for Business and Economics for the second year in a row and was also ranked first for citations per faculty. This is used as a measure of the impact of the university’s research.