There are many ranking systems. As you know, UTS ranked in the top three universities in Australia for the last three years of the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (now discontinued), and has also ranked highly in other ranking systems – generally in around the top 200 in The Times (which merges teaching and learning and research outcomes) and in the 100-200 range in the recent Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings for individual disciplines (based largely on research).
The SJ ranking heavily favours old universities and focuses on research related outputs in science and engineering. It gives high weight to the number of Nobel Prize winners ever produced and scientific (including medical) citations, but not those the social sciences and humanities. Thus, obtaining such a ranking in this system (equivalent to roughly the top 2% of universities in the world) is a great credit to our staff and I want to thank everyone for this achievement
There has been a lot of media in the last few days about 