Universities in Australia

Australian Universities Local and Global Rankings.

The first of what was to become the QS ranking system was developed within the Times Higher Education Supplement (THE). The publisher contracted Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), an independent education and careers advice company, to collect the data and prepare the rankings. In 2009 THE decided to split with QS and develop their own ranking system, claiming that the QS system was not comprehensive enough and favoured science over the humanities as well as being too heavily biased in favour of English speaking institutions. However QS continued to publish its rankings and they remain popular throughout the world.

The particular measurements used by the QS ranking system are:

* 40% Academic peer review

* 20% Faculty student ratio

* 20% Citations per faculty

* 10% Recruiter review

* 10% International orientation

These categories seem a bit narrow but this does not seem to have harmed the popularity of the QS rankings with people more focused on the end result rather than how it is produced.

QS Australian Universities World Rankings

Aus Rank	University	QS Rank 2016	QS Rank 2015	QS Rank 2014
1	Australian National University	22	19	25
2	University of Melbourne	42	42	33
3	University of Sydney	46	45	37
4	University of New South Wales	49	46	48
5	University of Queensland	51	46	43
6	Monash University	65	67	70
7	University of Western Australia	102	98	89
8	University of Adelaide	125	113	100
9	University of Technology Sydney	193	218	264
10	University of Wollongong	218	243	283
11	University of Newcastle	245	256	257
12	Macquarie University	247	229	254
13	RMIT University	252	273	304
14	Queensland University of Technology	276	263	285
15	University of South Australia	288	288	333
16	Curtin University	306	284	331
17	Griffith University	336	329	324
18	James Cook University	340	387	350
19	Deakin University	355	324	360
20	University of Tasmania	370	379	401-410
21	La Trobe University	386	394	401-410
22	Swinburne University of Technology	441-450	501-550	551-600
23	Bond University	461-470	501-550	471-480
24	Murdoch University	501-550	551-600	551-600
25=	Charles Darwin University	551-600	551-600	551-600
25=	Flinders University	551-600	501-550	481-490
25=	University of Canberra	551-600	551-600	651-700
25=	Western Sydney University	551-600	651-700	651-700
29	CQUniversity	601-650
30	Victoria University	651-700	601-650	701+
31=	Australian Catholic University	701+
31=	Charles Sturt University	701+	701+	701+
31=	Edith Cowan University	701+	701+	701+
31=	University of New England	701+	651-700	701+
31=	University of Southern Queensland	701+	701+	701+

Source: QS World University Rankings (opens in new window)