We excel across an incredible breadth and depth of subjects and disciplines, from arts to architecture, engineering to education, geography to technology.
We are ranked in the top 80 for four of the other most credible and influential world university rankings.
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in Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2021
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in US News & World Report Rankings 2021
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in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021
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in Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2020
Facts & figures
| Subject | Australia | World | Rankings source |
| Accounting and finance | 3 | 21 | QS 2021 |
| Archaeology | 2 | 40 | QS 2021 |
| Architecture and the built environment |
1 | 21 | QS 2021 |
| Agricultural sciences | 3 | 34 | US News and World Report |
| Anatomy and physiology | 3 | 28 | QS 2021 |
| Arts and humanities | 1 | 11 | US News and World Report |
| Business and management studies | 3 | 43 | QS 2021 |
| Clinical medicine | 1 | 23 | US News and World Report |
| Communication and media studies | 2 | 22 | QS 2021 |
| Education | 3 | 25 | QS 2021 |
| Engineering – civil and structural | 2 | 14 | QS 2021 |
| English language and literature | 1 | 18 | QS 2021 |
| Geography | 3 | 21 | QS 2021 |
| History | 2 | 22 | QS 2021 |
| History, philosophy and theology | 2 | 41 | THE 2020 |
| Law | 3 | 14 | QS 2021 |
| Life sciences | 4 | 57 | THE 2020 |
| Medicine | 2 | 19 | QS 2021 |
| Nursing | 2 | 13 | QS 2021 |
| Oncology | 1 | 8 | US News and World Report |
| Performing arts |
2 | 30 | QS 2021 |
| Pharmacy and pharmacology | 2 | 13 | QS 2021 |
| Psychology | 4 | 30 | QS 2021 |
| Public health | 3 | 34 | ShanghaiRanking 2021 |
| Social policy and administration |
3 | 33 | QS 2021 |
| Sociology | 3 | 26 | QS 2021 |
| Space science | 2 | 39 | US News and World Report |
| Sports-related subjects | 1 | 3 | QS 2021 |
| Surgery | 1 | 39 | US News and World Report |
| Telecommunication engineering | 2 | 21 | ShanghaiRanking 2021 |
| Transportation science and technology | 1 | 14 | ShanghaiRanking 2021 |
| Veterinary sciences | 1 | 15 | ShanghaiRanking 2021 |
