Third place on QS subject ranking

The QS subject performance lists are out, with enough data for every university to have a win

At the top end however there are few surprises from last year with local global top ten rankings much the same.

ANU has six-subjects in the global ten. Monash U has two, Melbourne U one, UNSW one, Uni Queensland two, Uni Sydney and UWA one each. UTS, Curtin U and Deakin U also have one each.

By broad discipline category (not the individual 48 subjects) QS results for the top ten ANZ unis look like other league tables;

Humanities: ANU (=16), Uni Melbourne (=16), Uni Sydney (22), UNSW (=42), Monash U (48), Uni Queensland (85), RMIT (102), Macquarie U (=113), UTS (=136), UWA (158)

Engineering/tech: UNSW (37) Uni Melbourne (=41), Monash U (54), Uni Sydney (=61), ANU (71), Uni Queensland (=76), UTS (106), Uni Adelaide (126), RMIT (141), UWA (=143)

 Life sciences/medicine: Uni Melbourne (=22) Uni Sydney (24), Uni Queensland (37), Monash U (39), UNSW (68) Uni Adelaide (91) UWA (=92), ANU (=129), Uni Newcastle (=215), Deakin U (=224)

Natural sciences: ANU (=37), Uni Melbourne (46), Uni Sydney (=49), UNSW (75), Monash U (89), Uni Queensland (91), Uni Adelaide (=96), UWA (=139), Curtin U (=197) Uni Wollongong (=237)

Social sciences/management: Uni Melbourne (17), Uni Sydney (=25), ANU (=29), UNSW (34), Monash U (=39), Uni Queensland (50), UTS (125),  UWA (133), QUT (=160) Deakin U (=166)

 QS reports Australian institutions collectively recording lower performance across the 48 subjects ranked but still is global third behind the US and UK.

Normally this would be enough to have kicked off complaints about funding, but not so much now, what with university managements having a real crisis to do deal with.

The rankings use the same methodology as the overall QS institutional league table. Two are research citations using Elsevier’s Scopus database. The others are surveys of academics and employers.


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