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Guide to OZ Jobs/Rooms listingsThe 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.
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)