Our rankings

UTS takes part in a number of world university rankings to benchmark our performance with other global universities. See how we stack up.

QS Top 50 under 50 years of age 2019*

UTS is the #1 young university in Australia for 4 consecutive years, and 10th in the world.

QS World University Rankings 2019*

UTS is 9th in Australia and 160th in the world

*QS rankings are based on research, teaching, employability and internationalisation.

QS Stars Rating 2015–2017

UTS was awarded five stars, a significant result for excellence in eight out of eight categories of higher education.

• Teaching: 5 Stars
• Research: 5 Stars
• Internationalisation: 5 Stars
• Employability of our graduates: 5 Stars
• Innovation: 5 Stars
• Access: 5 Stars
• Facilities: 5 Stars
• Specialist: Five stars achieved in the academic disciplines of Accounting & Finance

QS Reimagine Education Awards 2015

UTS was recognised as a world leader in innovative teaching and learning practices, winning the Hybrid Learning Innovation category of the 2015 Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards in Philadelphia, USA.

UTS was nominated for its learning.futures initiative, for the most innovative blended pedagogy to enhance student learning.

Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings (under 50 years old)

UTS is #1 in Australia and 16th globally, a comprehensive system with indicators linked to industry innovation and academic excellence.

Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings

UTS is 12th in Australia and 201-250th in the world, which judges world class universities across all of their core missions in teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

CWTS Leiden Ranking

In 2018, UTS ranked first in Australia for the proportion of our research appearing in leading science journals. 14 per cent of UTS papers have appeared in the top 10 per cent of science journals globally, placing UTS ahead of the 2017 leader, the Australian National University.

This ranking measures the impact of research publications and collaborations of universities around the world and is based on Web of Science indexed publications.

Field Rankings

	2016	2017	2018	2019
All Sciences	162	157	122	94
Biomedical & Health Sciences	144	172	148	198
Life & Earth Sciences	150	233	190	72
Mathematics & Computer Science	12	12	6	2
Physical Sciences & Engineering	414	285	137	154
Social Sciences & Humanities	219	246	298	363

* For the proportion of publications with top 10% citations 

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 

In the recent ERA report, we were ranked ‘at world standard’ – or above – in every single one of our research disciplines.  

In fact, our work in chemical sciences, material chemistry, environmental sciences and genetics were given the highest possible score - ‘well above world standard’ putting us on par with some leading institutions in the world.