The new edition is out this morning – which is generally good news, one way or another just about every university can find something to spruik

It’s another good year for Australian universities, in combination rating fourth in the world for total entries, 739, across the 51 disciplines scored.

The US is (way) ahead with 3136, followed by the UK, 1465 and what QS refers to as “China (Mainland)” with 771. However it is not as great as 2018, then there were 18 Australian universities with a subject in the global top ten, there are 13 now.

The top 20 unis for number of subjects ranked, is Uni Queensland and Uni Sydney (48 each), Uni Melbourne (47), Monash U (45), UNSW (41), Uni Adelaide (40), UWA (37), ANU (35), Uni Wollongong (31), Curtin U (30), Uni Newcastle (29), Macquarie U, QUT, RMIT (all =28), Griffith U, La Trobe U and UTS (=27), Uni SA (21), Deakin U (18) Western Sydney U (16).

The subject ranking uses the standard QS methodology, global surveys of academics and employers who volunteer assessments, citations per paper (using Scopus) and H-indexes.

Tomorrow: Angel Calderon on what the rankings mean