Melbourne university tops Australian ranking

The University of Melbourne has once again been crowned as the best higher education institution in Australia.

Figures released by Simon Birmingham, the federal minister for education, on Wednesday revealed that the University of Melbourne had the highest rate of degree completion in the country at 88 percent between 2009 and 2014.

Margaret Sheil, acting vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, says the university's completion rate came as a result of the institution's imposing requirements of students.