UTS is Australia's number one young university, with a vision of becoming a world-leading university of technology.
Australia's number 1 young university
Our rankings
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1st in Australia (University under 50 years old)
Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2022
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133rd in the World
Times Higher World University Rankings 2023
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15th in the World for Sustainability Overall
Times Higher Impact Rankings 2022
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2nd in the World for Clean Water and Sanitation
Times Higher Impact Rankings 2022
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2nd in Australia (Proportion of Research appearing in leading science journals)
Times Higher World University Rankings 2023
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62nd in the World (for graduate employability)
QS Graduate Employability Ranking 2022
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1st in Australia and 11th in the world for Engineering and Computer Science
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#1 in Australia for AI Research
Our recognitions
Times Higher Education (THE) has ranked UTS as the highest-performing university in Australia younger than 50 years.
Overall, UTS is 9th in Australia in both the THE World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. UTS also ranked 15th in the world and 2nd in Australia for overall contributions to Sustainable Development in the THE Impact Rankings 2022.
UTS is among the world’s top institutions in 27 of 51 subjects according to QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022, with subjects in the global top 100 including Computer Science & Information Systems, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Art & Design, Communication & Media Studies, Accounting & Finance and Nursing.
Our research achievements
Our research is also being recognised in national and international rankings. Almost 80 percent of UTS’s assessed research areas have rated as having a ‘high’ impact beyond academia – the highest proportion in the country – in the 2018 Australian Research Council (ARC) Engagement and Impact Assessment.
All UTS research (100%) in the broad fields of research (FOR) was at world standard or above in the ARC’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation. In 2022, UTS ranked second in Australia for the proportion of publications in the top 10 percent of citations for All Sciences by CWTS Leiden Rankings.