With international marketing a bit quiet, university hoorayathons over the new QS ranking yesterday seemed subdued. But at least QS was noticed  – apart from Curtin U the week’s other ranking was pretty much ignored

And yet the World University Ranking (from the Centre for WUR) is no less than QS – apart from a marketing budget. Indeed, CWUR says it is different to other rankings, being all data-based and not relying on surveys or institution-supplied information.

Compared to QS (CMM yesterday), Australian universities rate lower in the WUR, but the pattern is similar. This year Uni Melbourne is 63^rd in the world (64^th last year and 71^st in 2018), Uni Sydney is 98^th (100^th and 71^st), Uni Queensland is 106^th (115th and 74^th), UNSW is 112^th (113^th and 119^th), ANU is 123^rd (108^th and 82^nd), Monash U is 130^th (102^nd and 124^th), UWA is 151^st (126^th and 145^th).  Uni Adelaide is way back at 221^st (217^th, 229^th), Curtin U is 361st (360^th and 400^th) and Macquarie U is 378^th (371^st and 324^th).

The CWUR rankings appear to have settled down this year and last, with no more big swings, as occurred in 19-20 from 2018-19. This might have something to do with a change methodologies for last year’s issue, (CMM August 9 2019).