Melbourne ranked a top university city
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26 May 2008
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Melbourne’s liveability and attractiveness to foreign students are two reasons the city has increased to fourth place in the latest Global University City Index, beating out Sydney in the ranking which measures cities on their ability to establish strong universities.
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The Global University City Index was created by RMIT University to highlight some of the world's top "knowledge economies". Cities are assessed on a range of measures: liveability, education expenditure (on research and students); the number of graduates produced; and how many universities the city has in the Financial Times Higher Education top universities list (Melbourne has three: Melbourne University, Monash and RMIT).
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This year's index sees Paris slipping from its third position last year, to number seven, largely because it had a smaller number of universities listed in the Financial Times rankings than previous years.
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London, home to leading institutions such as the London School of Economics, retained its number one spot. Boston, home to institutions such as Harvard and MIT, again came in second, followed by Tokyo, which moved from fourth to third this year.
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Five cities entered the top 20 this year, including Pittsburgh, Vienna, Vancouver, Philadelphia, and Munich.
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