Research excellence spurs jump in THE rankings
The University of Sydney has jumped four places in the 2023 edition of the to 54thposition globally out of 1,799 institutions worldwide.
Research excellence was a major contributor to the result, with research being the University’s strongest overall indicator, cementing our status as a world-leading, research-intensive university.The University also scored highly for international outlook, reflecting the University’s established position as a global institution.
“Our research activity and international connections, including partnerships and research collaborations, underpin this outcome and I congratulate our academic and professional staff on our competitiveness in this ranking. As we commit to our next 10-year strategy, aspiring to be one of the world’s great universities, we have an excellent foundation to build on,”saidVice-Chancellor and President, Professor Mark Scott AO.
The University has been at theforefront of COVID-19 research, from advising governments on public health measures and developing variant-proof vaccines, in collaboration with industry. And to fast-trackthe path to Net-Zero, we are pioneering advances in waste management, solar panel and battery technology.
We collaborate with some of the best research universities in the world,including Harvard University, National University of Singapore and UCL, and have thelargest student mobility program in Australia.
Our research activity and international connections, including partnerships and research collaborations, underpin this outcome and I congratulate our academic and professional staff on our competitiveness in this ranking.
ʰǴڱǰEmma JohnstonAO, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research),said: “Improvement in the rankings is one way the excellence of our research activity is acknowledged, alongside indicators such as our strong record of successful start-ups and spin-outs, our twenty-nine academicsnamed as world-leading expertsand the$40 million we were recently awardedunder theMedical Research Future Fund.”
“They are an encouraging recognition of the importance and quality of our efforts as the University strives to address pressing global challenges with new discoveries and translational research.”
“Examples of recent exemplary research includestudiesthat monitored 78,500 adults to confirm 10,000 steps at a quick pace lowers risk of disease,critical contributions totwo pioneering studiesidentifying genetic signatures explaining ethnic differences in the severity of prostate cancer, ourcontribution to aon the discovery in Borneo of the earliest evidence of an amputation, anda PhD student developinga toolto assist surgeons in planning complexjawbone reconstruction by generating a ‘digital twin’ of the patient using CT scan data.”
This is the 20thedition of the annual Times Higher Education (THE) rankings whichjudge universitiesacross citations, research, teaching, international outlook and industry.
In other rankings results this year, theUniversity of Sydney performed strongly in theAcademic Ranking of World Universities(ARWU) for the third year,improvingnine places globally to 60th, as well as theShanghaiRankingGlobal Ranking of Academic Subjects, recording 14 research areas in the top 50 globally, including nursing (7th), telecommunication engineering (9th) and transportation science and technology (10th). In theQS World University Rankingsreleased in June, the University ranked 41st in theworld.
This year Australia has seven universities in the world top 100, up from six last year, and 10 universities in the world top 200 – making it the joint-fifth most-represented country in the top 200.
