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Charles Darwin University

AustraliaOceania

#584

QS World University Rankings 2026

28.7

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#584

QS World University Rankings 2026

#621

QS World University Rankings 2025

28.7

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
7.8
QS 2026 rank
#701

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
7.3
QS 2026 rank
#701

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
6.4
QS 2026 rank
#801

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
65.1
QS 2026 rank
#247

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
41.8
QS 2026 rank
#483

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
88.9
QS 2026 rank
#178

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
88.5
QS 2026 rank
#154

International research network

QS 2026 score
49.7
QS 2026 rank
#801

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
4.8
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
70.7
QS 2026 rank
#305
University profile

About Charles Darwin University

Charles Darwin research is organised around Indigenous and tropical health, environmental science, and public policy

Charles Darwin University presents research and innovation as work with social, cultural, health, economic, and environmental implications from Northern Australia. Its public page identifies research institutes and centres, partnerships, ethics and integrity, researcher development, research impact, and a research web portal. It also names Indigenous and tropical health, environmental science, and public policy as visible research strengths. These directions are useful for identifying a setting, but they are not interchangeable subjects. A tropical-health question can concern clinical care, community experience, biological information, public health, or service delivery. An environmental question may require an ecosystem, species, measurement, map, climate condition, or land-management record. A public-policy question needs its own institutional and documentary evidence.

The university's Northern Australian setting can matter for a question, yet location should not be used in place of evidence. Start by naming the object: a health practice, a turtle habitat, a heat-risk condition, a community service, a water or land system, a policy, or a technical intervention. Then list the data, samples, interviews, observations, documents, field measurements, images, models, or records needed to investigate it. That makes it possible to use a research institute, partnership page, ethics route, news story, or research-web entry for the role it actually plays. The closest project or output record should carry the detailed claim about a specific inquiry.

Turtle foraging, heat adaptation, and First Nations maternity care require different Charles Darwin evidence

Charles Darwin University's research news gives several concrete examples. One study examines green-turtle foraging in the Northern Territory using an innovative survey technique with potential relevance to monitoring marine habitats in remote conditions. Another reports that responses to rising heat need to be adapted to the conditions of remote towns and communities across Northern Australia. A documentary about bringing birthing back on Country shares the journey of Yolngu mothers, grandmothers, leaders, and health workers in relation to First Nations maternity care and self-determination. These examples are not variants of one generic environment or health theme. They raise different objects, settings, relationships, and forms of evidence.

A marine-habitat question may need field observations, survey design, species behaviour, location data, water conditions, and ecological records. A heat-adaptation question may draw on temperature information, housing or infrastructure, health and social conditions, policy, and local experience. A maternity-care question may require careful engagement with community knowledge, health practice, service settings, participant accounts, and ethical context. A news report can name the question and setting, but it may not provide the full research method or material. A more detailed project, institute, publication, or researcher page should be used before making a narrow statement about current work or a particular approach.

Build a CDU research trail from a defined problem, local setting, and appropriate evidence

A useful Charles Darwin University search begins with a short account of the problem and the evidence needed. For a turtle question, specify the behaviour, habitat, survey approach, and environmental condition. For a heat question, identify the place, population, climate measure, built setting, or policy question. For a maternity-care question, name the service, community context, practice, participant experience, or health outcome. Then ask which kind of official record can speak to that object: an institute page, research project, news item, publication, research-web entry, or researcher profile. This avoids matching a question to a broad strength label without knowing whether the relevant material is actually visible.

The public CDU material establishes research routes, northern research strengths, ethics and development resources, and several focused news examples. The material cannot confirm every nearby subject is an active focus within a specific institute, that a story describes all of the evidence used, or that a partnership page proves access to a setting. A careful conclusion should depend on an official local record that explicitly connects the research object to the activity being described. If the available page is broader, it remains an informed next lead. This evidence-led reading respects CDU's location-specific research context without making claims beyond the visible sources.

Institution record

Country
Australia
Region
Oceania
Status
Public
QS size code
M
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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