James Cook University Singapore is a branch of James Cook University, based in Townsville, Australia. In addition to Singapore and Townsville, JCU operates another campus in Cairns, Australia. JCU Singapore was opened in 2003 as part of the university’s strategic intent of “Creating a brighter future for life in the tropics world-wide through graduates and discoveries that make a difference”. The university is ranked in the top 2%* of universities in the world and is the leading tropical research university in Australia. JCU Singapore fully adapts the Australian curriculum and all degree certification is awarded from James Cook University Australia. JCU is registered under the Committee for Private Education Singapore (CPE).
JCU Singapore’s campus is located at 149 Sims Drive, in between the Kallang and Aljunied MRT stations.
JCU has consistently ranked in the top 400 academic universities worldwide since 2010, as measured by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). For 2016, JCU ranked in the top two percent of universities in the world by ARWU.
| Publications | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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| QS World University Rankings | * | * | * | * | * | 401-500 | 355 | * | 352 | 362 | * | 351 | 350 | 387 | 340 | 367 | 369 | 377 | 462 |
| Academic Ranking of World Universities (formerly Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings) | 401-500 | * | * | 401-500 | 403-510 | 303-401 | 402-501 | 301-400 | 301-400 | 301-400 | 301-400 | 301-400 | 301-400 | 201-300 | 301-400 | 201-300 | 201-300 | 301-400 | 201-300 |
| Times Higher Education World University Rankings | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 251-300 | 251-300 | 201-250 | 201-250 | 201-250 | 201-250 |
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In the Commonwealth Government’s Excellence in Research for Australia 2012 National Report, JCU research received the highest ranking of ‘well above world standard’ (rating 5) in the areas of environmental science and management, ecological applications and medical microbiology.[11] The University also received an ‘above world standard’ ranking for research in the areas of materials engineering, immunology, tourism, biological sciences, agricultural and veterinary sciences, fisheries sciences, veterinary sciences, inorganic chemistry, earth sciences, geochemistry, and geology.