List of universities in Melanesia

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This is a list of universities and other higher education institutions in Melanesia.

Contents 1 Regional 2 Fiji 3 Indonesia 4 Papua New Guinea 5 Solomon Islands 6 Vanuatu 7 Rankings of universities 8 References 9 See also

[edit] Regional

• University of the South Pacific, Alafua (Port Vila, Samoa), Emalus (Port Vila, Vanuatu) and Laucala (Suva, Fiji)

[edit] Fiji

• Fiji Institute of Technology
• Fiji School of Medicine, Suva
• University of Fiji, Saweni
• University of the South Pacific, Suva

[edit] Indonesia

• See List of universities in Indonesia

[edit] Papua New Guinea

• Divine Word University, Madang
• Pacific Adventist University, Boroko
• University of Technology, Lae
• University of Goroka, Goroka
• University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby

[edit] Solomon Islands

• University of the South Pacific, Honiara (a university centre)

[edit] Vanuatu

• University of the South Pacific, Port Vila

[edit] Rankings of universities

2008 Ranking Web of World Universities

Currently the Webometrics Ranking is the only that covers Melanesian universities. Most of them are provided in the Oceania section but Indonesian ones are provided under Asia entry.

2006 Shanghai Jiao Tong University's academic ranking of world universities

As yet, no Melanesian universities appear in the "Academic Ranking of World Universities" [1], produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education.

2006 Times Higher Education Supplement Melanesian Rankings

Two universities were ranked in the Times Higher Education Supplement, both from Indonesia:

• Bandung Institute of Technology
• Airlangga University

Asiaweek's Melanesian top ranking universities

In 2000, Asiaweek ranked Asia's universities and grouped them according to whether they were a generalist Multi-Disciplinary or a Science and Technology university. [2]

In 1999, Asiaweek released the first regional listing of Asia's best universities. [3] Melanesian universities in the list and their rankings were:

[edit] References

Ranking Web of World Universities

[edit] See also

• List of colleges and universities
• List of colleges and universities by country