page_title: University of Sydney
section_title: Rankings
hierarchical_section_title: University of Sydney / Academic profile / Rankings
caption_attribution_description: English: Housing the School for Geosciences
context_page_description: The University of Sydney is an Australian public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is Australia's first university and is regarded as one of the world's leading universities. The university is known as one of Australia's six sandstone universities. Its campus is ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post, spreading across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington. The university comprises nine faculties and university schools, through which it offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees.
  In 2018–19, the QS World University Rankings ranked Sydney as one of the world's top 25 most reputable universities, and its graduates as the top 5 most employable in the world and first in Australia. It is one of the first universities in the world to admit students solely on academic merit, and opened their doors to women on the same basis as men.
  Five Nobel and two Crafoord laureates have been affiliated with the university as graduates and faculty.
context_section_description: When averaging the world's major rankings, The University of Sydney (56) appears to be ranked third in Australia, behind The University of Queensland (47) and The University of Melbourne (40).
  The 2021 QS World University Rankings ranked the University of Sydney 40th in the world, second nationally and top-ranked university in New South Wales. It is ranked 25th in the world by academic reputation. By Subject, QS ranked the University of Sydney in the top 50 across all five broad subject areas.
  15th in Arts and Humanities
  39th in Engineering and Technology
  15th in Life Sciences and Medicine
  43rd in Natural Sciences
  14th in Social Sciences and Management
  Additionally, Sydney is ranked 2nd in Sports-related Subjects, 10th in Anatomy & Physiology, 11th in Veterinary Science, 12th in Education, 14th in Law and Legal Studies, 15th in Nursing, 16th in Architecture, 18th in Accounting and Finance, 18th in English Language and Literature, 18th in Medicine and 18th in Pharmacy and Pharmacology.
  The 2018 QS Graduate Employability Rankings ranked University of Sydney graduates 4th most employable in the world, 1st in Australia, and 2nd in the Asia Pacific region.  In 2012, a human resources consultancy in Paris conducted a survey of recruiters in 20 countries and ranked Sydney as 49th in the world for employability.
  The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 ranked the University of Sydney 59th in the world and 3rd in Australia, ahead of UNSW at 96th and 5th respectively.
  The University of Sydney Business School has cemented its place among the world's leading providers of business education with accreditation from AMBA, a leading authority on postgraduate management studies, thereby achieving the top one percent "triple crown" status.
  By subject area, the University of Sydney is ranked: 
  58th in Arts and Humanities
  37th in Clinical, Pre-clinical and Health
  76th in Engineering and Technology
  47th in Life Sciences
  97th in Physical Sciences
  68th in Social Sciences
  83rd in Business and Economics
  101-125th in Computer Science
  33rd in Law
  24th in Education
  65th in Psychology
  The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2017 ranked Sydney as 61st-70th most reputable in the world.
  In 2019, it ranked 33rd among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings.
  The 2020 US News & World Report's Best Global Universities ranking placed Sydney 27th in the world and 2nd in Australasia. In the 2019 Shanghai Ranking published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, the University of Sydney was ranked in the 80th and in the top 0.6% of universities in the world. Sydney is ranked 1st in Australia and 29th overall in the 2017 CWTS Leiden Rankings for research impact.
  In the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities 2015 by National Taiwan University, Sydney is ranked 36th in the world, 3rd in the Asia Pacific and 2nd in Australia.
  The prestigious London based Financial Times has ranked the University of Sydney Business School's flagship Master of Management as Australia's number one program of its kind for the seventh consecutive year. The Master of Management (MMgt) program was also ranked in the world’s top 5 for “career progress” made by its graduates.
  In terms of alumni wealth, the number of wealthy Sydney alumni was ranked fifth outside the United States, behind Oxford, Mumbai, Cambridge and LSE according to the ABC NEWS.  Business magazine Spear's placed the University of Sydney 44th in the world and 2nd in Australia in its table of "World's top 100 universities for producing millionaires".
caption: The Madsen Building, housing the School of Geosciences, previously occupied by the CSIRO
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