Ranking provider QS must have had such fun publishing its annual world university ranking at the start of the month that it is back already with another, the QS Top 50 Universities under 50 years for 2019. That there are 150 institutions on the list, and it is branded next year does not seem to bother the universities who make the cut, many of which were announcing their achievements yesterday.

The top 50 results, at least for Australia, are not especially surprising, what with the order being the same as for the all-uni ranking. UTS is tenth in the world, followed by Uni Wollongong (16), QUT (19), Curtin U (20), RMIT (21), UniSA (25), Deakin U (31), Griffith U (35), James Cook U (43) and Swinburne U 45th.