QS Australian Universities World Rankings

QS Australian Universities World Rankings
Aus Rank	University	QS Rank 2020	QS Rank 2019	QS Rank 2018
1	Australian National University	29	24	20
2	University of Melbourne	38	39	=41
3	University of Sydney	42	42	50
4	University of New South Wales	43	45	45
5	University of Queensland	47	48	=47
6	Monash University	58	59	60
7	University of Western Australia	86	91	=93
8	University of Adelaide	106	114	=109
9	University of Technology Sydney	140	160	176
10	University of Newcastle	207	214	=224
11	University of Wollongong	212	218	232
12	Queensland University of Technology	224	244	=247
13	Curtin University	230	=250	262
14	Macquarie University	237	=250	=240
15	RMIT University	238	=250	=247
16	Deakin University	271	309	=293
17	University of South Australia	274	264	=279
18	University of Tasmania	291	287	313
19	Griffith University	320	329	=325
20	James Cook University	377	369	=367
21	Swinburne University of Technology	383	387	421-430
22	La Trobe University	400	397	360
23	Flinders University	424	478	551-600
24	Bond University	442	443	431-440
25	Western Sydney University	468	498	551-600
26	University of Canberra	484	601-650	551-600
27	Murdoch University	571-580	591-600	501-550
=28	CQUniversity	601-650	601-650	601-650
=28	Victoria University	601-650	651-700	701-750
=30	Charles Darwin University	651-700	651-700	651-700
=30	Edith Cowan University	651-700	751-800	751-800
=32	Southern Cross University	751-800	801-1000	801-1000
=32	University of Southern Queensland	751-800	751-800	751-800
=34	Australian Catholic University	801-1000	801-1000	801-1000
=34	University of New England	801-1000	801-1000	801-1000
–	Charles Sturt University	–	801-1000	801-1000
–	University of the Sunshine Coast	–	801-1000	801-1000

Source: QS World University Rankings (opens in new window)

The first of what was to become the QS ranking system was developed within the Times Higher Education Supplement (THE). The publisher contracted Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), an independent education and careers advice company, to collect the data and prepare the rankings. In 2009 THE decided to split with QS and develop their own ranking system, claiming that the QS system was not comprehensive enough and favoured science over the humanities as well as being too heavily biased in favour of English speaking institutions. However QS continued to publish its rankings and they remain popular throughout the world.

The particular measurements used by the QS ranking system are:

* 40% Academic peer review

* 20% Faculty student ratio

* 20% Citations per faculty

* 10% Recruiter review

* 10% International orientation

These categories seem a bit narrow but this does not seem to have harmed the popularity of the QS rankings with people more focused on the end result rather than how it is produced.

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