University of New South Wales, (UNSW) Rankings: World ranking & National ranking

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Updated on - Apr 30th, 2022 | 01:23 PM By Venushree Agarwal

The University of New South Wales, or UNSW, is one of Australia's top 100 universities, as well as one of the top 100 worldwide. US News & World Report has UNSW ranked #51 for the year 2021. UNSW is ranked #67 by THE for 2021.

UNSW Ranking Highlights

UNSW is ranked 20th in the world for Law, Accounting, and Finance, and first in Australia for Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2021. ranked 45th in Economics and Business in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report. Some of the highlights of University of New South Wales rankings are listed below: 

  • Ranked #43 by QS World University Rankings.
  • Ranked #13 by QS WUR Ranking By Subject.
  • Ranked #32 by Graduate Employability Rankings.
  • UNSW is ranked 58th best institution in the world overall and 38th best university for research in the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2021.

UNSW World Rankings

In the QS World University Rankings for 2021, the University of New South Wales is listed 43rd., Ranked 67th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in 2021. UNSW is a member of the elite Group of Eight, which is made up of Australia's top research universities. Following are some of the world rankings of the University of New South Wales given by these ranking agencies.

Ranked by

World Ranking 2021

ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Universities Rankings

#65

QS - World University Ranking

#44

THE (Times Higher Education) - University Ranking

#67

Global Universities US News & World Report

#51

UNSW National Rankings

The University of New South Wales is nationally ranked #4 by CWUR and #65th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2021. UNSW is ranked 3rd in Australia overall and #1 in New South Wales. Furthermore, UNSW has more topics ranked in the Academic Ranking of World Universities than any other Australian university in 2021, with 19 in the top 50 and 2 in the top 10. Tabulated below ranking at UNSW National Rankings.

Ranked by

National Ranking 2021

QS National

4

THE National

5

ARWU National

3

US News National

5

ERA National

5

UNSW Subject Rankings

UNSW's PG Business & Economics programs are ranked #57 by THE, while UNSW's Global MBA is ranked #41 by QS for the year 2021. THE also ranks UNSW's postgraduate engineering and technology courses at #48 for 2021, THE has also ranked UNSW's postgraduate computer courses at #54 for the year 2021. Tabulated below ranking at UNSW Rankings by Subject.

Course name

Ranked by

Ranking 2020- 2021

Global MBA

QS 

41

PG Business and Economics 

THE (Times Higher Education)

57

Research Disciplines

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

52