World Rankings of Australian Universities

World Rankings of Australian Universities Within the Main World University Ranking Systems
AU	University	QS	THE	ARWU	USN
1	University of Melbourne	38	32	38	26
2	Australian National University	29	49	69	69=
3	University of Sydney	42	59	68	34=
4	University of Queensland	47	69	55	45
5	Monash University	58	84	91	68
6	University of New South Wales	43	96	101+	69=
7	University of Western Australia	86	134	93	88=
8	University of Adelaide	106	135	101+	122
9	Macquarie University	237	201+	201+	234=
10	University of Newcastle	207	301+	301+	290=
11	University of Technology Sydney	140	196	301+	260=
12	University of Wollongong	212	201+	201+	290=
13	Queensland University of Technology	224	201+	201+	274=
14	Deakin University	271	351+	201+	267=
15	RMIT University	238	401+	301+	426=
16	Curtin University	230	301+	151+	264
17	University of South Australia	274	201+	601+	400=
18	Griffith University	320	251+	301+	265=
19	James Cook University	377	201+	201+	253=
20	University of Tasmania	291	351+	201+	316=
21	Swinburne University of Technology	383	401+	301+	422=
22	La Trobe University	400	301+	301+	471=
23	Flinders University	424	251+	401+	422=
24	Bond University	442	501+
25	Charles Darwin University	651+	501+		768=
26	Murdoch University	571+	401+	601+	607=
27	Western Sydney University	468	351+	401+	363=
28	University of Canberra	484	251+	601+	813=
29	Charles Sturt University			901+	867
30	Edith Cowan University	651+	501+	801+	689=
31	University of New England	801+		701+	686=
32	University of Southern Queensland	751+	601+
33	Victoria University	601+	301+		643=
34	Southern Cross University	751+	501+		894=
35	CQUniversity	601+	501+
36	Australian Catholic University	801+	401+	501+	832=
37	University of the Sunshine Coast		601+	701+

Key & Notes

* QS refers to the QS Australian Universities World University Rankings

* THE refers to the Times Higher Education Australian Universities Rankings

* ARWU refers to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities

* USN refers to the US News Australian Rankings

World university ranking systems have become extremely popular over recent years with universities around the world basing entire marketing campaigns over a single positive element of one of the ranking results. Along with this students now confer almost magical status to the ranking systems without any consideration of how the results were arrived at or what exactly the results have to do with the area in which they want to study. Finally there are the developers and operators of the ranking systems themselves who rely on the aura they have all invested in to maintain a profitable global business which in some cases would otherwise not exist.

The four ranking systems selected here are the three main ones of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), and Shanghai Ranking Consultancy’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Along with this is the relative newcomer US News which has a long history of ranking universities within America and has recently branched out to include world rankings as part of its operations.

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