Metallurgical Engineering and Oceanography move to the top spot in Australia for the first time in ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
UNSW Sydney has ranked first in Australia in 10 subjects in the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2024. Metallurgical Engineering and Oceanography have moved to the top spot in Australia for the first time in this year’s league table.
Globally, UNSW has ranked in the top 10 for three subjects – Mining & Mineral Engineering (8th), Energy Science & Engineering (5th) and Water Resources (9th). We have also ranked in the top 20 for five subjects – Business Administration (moving from 32nd up to 13th), Civil Engineering (from 30th up to 20th), Oceanography (from 24th up to 14th) and Public Health (from 28th up to 20th). Telecommunication Engineering has maintained its position of 12th globally and has improved one place in Australia to second.
Professor Dane McCamey, Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, congratulated the UNSW community on its achievements.
“This year’s results confirm the breadth, depth and quality of our research across a range of disciplines. It strengthens our position to tackle the world’s great challenges and to deliver solutions that benefit everyone.”
UNSW has 50 subjects ranked in this year’s league table out of 55 subjects ranked across natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences and social sciences. More than 1900 universities across 96 countries and regions are listed.
US maintains top positions
Universities from the US continued to hold the top positions, with first place in 29 subjects. Harvard University is the best-performing institution, earning 14 in first place. MIT takes first place in four subjects and Tsinghua University in China leads in three.
GRAS 2024 uses a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in relevant subjects, covering five major evaluation categories. A new category, World-Class Faculty, has been introduced to reflect the concentration of top tier scholars. It includes four new indicators: International Academic Award Laureates (Laureate), Highly Cited Researchers (HCR), Chief Editors of International Academic Journals (Editor) and International Academic Organization Leadership (Leadership). As well as the new category, GRAS 2024 retains traditional indicators across categories like World-Class Output (combination of existing indicators for Top Journal Papers and Academic Awards), High Quality Research, Research Impact and International Collaboration.
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