QS ranking profile
Murdoch University
This page presents clearly labeled QS ranking data for orientation. It does not verify programs, supervisors, funding, admission requirements, or the university's website.
- QS 2026 rank
- #423
- Up 13 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #436
- Overall score
- 36.1
Explore opportunities at Murdoch University
Browse active research positions, doctoral fellowships, and university funding calls indexed from official faculties and verified sources.
QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Medium
- About 5,000 to 12,000 students
- Subject range
- Comprehensive
- Teaches across all main faculty areas
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Oceania
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About Murdoch University
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
Research institutes with different public purposes
Murdoch University presents research through institutes and centres that address social and scientific questions. Its public pages identify the Harry Butler Institute, Health Futures Institute, Food Futures Institute, Ngangk Yira Institute for Change, Australian National Phenome Centre, and Indo-Pacific Research Centre. Each name provides a different route into the university's research environment. Sustainable development, health, food systems, Aboriginal-led work, phenomics, and regional collaboration may involve different methods and academic homes. A researcher should therefore begin by finding the institute or discipline closest to the problem they want to investigate.
The institute pages help make broad topics more concrete, but they should be read alongside the relevant school, research group, or researcher. An interest in environmental systems might involve the Harry Butler Institute yet still require a particular scientific or policy setting. A health question may connect to the Health Futures Institute or the Australian National Phenome Centre, but the methods and people can differ greatly. Treat each named institute as an entry point for research, not as proof that all related work is accessible through one path.
Ethics, engagement, and research in context
Murdoch's research site refers to research ethics and integrity, industry and partnerships, impact and engagement, and research study. This makes the wider structure around research visible. It is particularly useful for topics that could involve community partnerships, applied problems, health information, or environmental field settings. The public structure does not describe the arrangements for every project. To understand a potential research home, follow the central material to current work from the relevant institute, academic unit, or researcher and see how the local setting is described.
The Ngangk Yira Institute for Change is described as research led by Aboriginal people for the benefit of Aboriginal families and communities. This is an important example of how the purpose and leadership of research can shape a topic. A researcher interested in an area with community relevance should pay attention to the unit's own language, relationships, and stated priorities. Do not turn an institutional description into a general claim about every project. The group closest to the work is the place to understand its actual scope and approach.
Checking a Murdoch research direction carefully
Start with a focused question and locate the academic discipline or institute where it belongs. Then find a small set of current people, projects, or facilities that show why the connection is real. Describe the fit using observable details. You may identify a research method, a health or environmental problem, a regional setting, or a form of collaboration that relates to your previous work. If the connection is merely a broad phrase such as sustainability or innovation, keep looking until a specific research home is visible.
Murdoch's central research pages are a useful guide to institutes, ethics, partnerships, and university-level activity. They do not replace field-level checking. The numerical data displayed before this text is a general institutional reference rather than a score for a research group or potential relationship. Base your final comparison on current material from the unit where you would work, and record any details that remain uncertain instead of assuming they will apply to your own path.