Tony Abbott was not the best student at Oxford University when he was enrolled there as a Rhodes Scholar in the 1980s, but he did finish. And that is more than can be said for other future world leaders of that time.

The young Mr Abbott's academic transcript, obtained by journalist James West, reveals a student somewhere in the ruck, showing few signs of the lofty heights to which he would climb as his country's 28th prime minister.

Tony Abbott's academic transcript from The Queen's College, Oxford. Credit:Facebook/James West

His results, published on the website Junkee and in The Guardian, show Mr Abbott struggled to gain the highest marks for his efforts in the philosophy, politics and economics program in which he was enrolled.