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University of Otago Rankings 2025
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- University of Otago Ranking Highlights
- University of Otago University Ranking
- University of Otago US News & World Report Ranking 2023
- University of Otago QS Ranking 2025
- University of Otago THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
- University of Otago ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2023
- University of Otago Course Ranking
University of OtagoRanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, University of Otago has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, University of Otago stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated A by Shiksha Grading, University of Otago is also rated A++ for MBA/PGDM. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the University of Otago courses are in the range of A++ and B+ grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, University of Otago ranks #214, which is declining in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #206 in 2024. University of Otago also ranks #301 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, University of Otago witnessed a stable trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #301 in 2023.
Check out more details on University of Otago ranking in the below content.
By Shiksha Study AbroadUniversity Ranking
University of OtagoUS News & World Report Ranking 2023
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 226 | 230 | 247 |
University of OtagoQS Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World University | 217 | 206 | 214 |
| Accounting and Finance | 201 | 201 | – / – |
| Biological Sciences | 201 | 151 | – / – |
| Communication and Media Studies | 201 | 151 | – / – |
| Global MBA | 151 | 201 | – / – |
| Law and Legal Studies | 151 | 151 | – / – |
| Mathematics | 501 | 501 | – / – |
| Medicine | 151 | 144 | – / – |
| Nursing | 51 | 51 | – / – |
| Pharmacy and Pharmacology | 101 | 101 | – / – |
| Physics and Astronomy | 451 | 451 | – / – |
| Politics | 201 | 201 | – / – |
| Sociology | 151 | 101 | – / – |
University of OtagoTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University | 201 | 301 | 301 |
| Arts and Humanities | 176 | 201 | 201 |
| Clinical and Health | 151 | 151 | 176 |
| Law | 201 | 176 | 176 |
| Life Sciences | 301 | 251 | 251 |
| PG Business and Economics | 126 | 151 | 201 |
| PG Computer Science | 401 | 501 | 501 |
| Psychology | 93 | 101 | 101 |
University of OtagoARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2023
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universities | 301 | 301 | 401 |
| Law | 151 | 201 | 201 |
| Nursing | 151 | 101 | 101 |
| Political Sciences | 301 | – / – | – / – |
| Sociology | 151 | 151 | – / – |
University of OtagoCourse Ranking
Shiksha has graded University of Otago streams, such as Business & Management Studies, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Science with A++, A, and B++ grades. The presence of multiple rankings online can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
However, in case students are wondering how well is University of Otago ranked for its subjects as per other ranking bodies, the institute is popular for its Nursing, Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Psychology, and Clinical & Health courses all over the world. In the QS ranking 2024, University of Otago stands at #51 for Nursing program. Additionally, it is also ranked at #101 for Pharmacy & Pharmacology. Other than these, Sociology at #101, and Medicine at #144 also got ranked by QS 2024. It is recommended to study Nursing as it ranks #51 by QS (the best ranked course of this institute under this ranking body). This ranking stood at #51 in 2023.
Read on to learn more about University of Otago courses and subject rankings in the below article.
LL.M.
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Law and Legal Studies | - | 151 | 151 |
| ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Law | 151 | 201 | 201 |
| THE (Times Higher Education) - Law | - | 201 | 176 |
M.A.
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Sociology | - | 151 | 151 |
| QS - Politics | - | 151 | 201 |
| QS - Communication and Media Studies | - | 151 | 201 |
| ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Political Sciences | 301 | - | - |
| ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Sociology | 151 | 151 | - |
| THE (Times Higher Education) - Arts and Humanities | - | 176 | 201 |
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The comparative QS world rankings of University of Otago and University of Waikato are given as follows:
| Year | University of Otago | University of Waikato |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 176 | 266 |
| 2021 | 184 | 375 |
| 2022 | 194 | 373 |
| 2023 | 217 | 331 |
| 2024 | 206 | 250 |
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