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 the 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:
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]
Multi-disciplinary
Rank
University
75
Airlangga University
73
Diponegoro University
68
Gadjah Mada University
61
University of Indonesia
Science and technology
Rank
University
21
Bandung Institute of Technology
In 1999, Asiaweek released the first regional listing of Asia's best universities.[3] Melanesian universities in the list and their rankings were: