The University of Sydney has edged ahead of the University of Melbourne on the 2016 QS World University Rankings by Subject, taking the number one position in Australia off its southern rival in the architecture and built environment disciplines.

Sydney Uni was ranked 17 in the world in the Rankings by Subject architecture discipline just in front of Melbourne Uni (18) and the University of NSW (19). The next Australian architecture faculty to make the top 50 was RMIT at 36, followed by The University of Queensland (43) and The University of Newcastle (47).

Curtin, Griffith and Monash universities as well as Queensland University of Technology and the University of South Australia were all from 51-100.

The QS rankings evaluated 4,226 universities, qualified 2,691 universities and ranked the top 945 institutions. The process included analysing more than 113 million citations and verifying more than 15,530 programs

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.A) once again topped the list ahead of the University College London in second and University of California, Berkeley in third.

Overall it was a slight fall for most Australian faculties with only UNSW posting an improvement on their 2015 rankings.

Compare Australia’s performance in the 2015 and 2016 QS World Rankings below:

INSTITUTION	2015 RANK	2016 RANK
The University of Melbourne	15	18
The University of Sydney	17	17
University of NSW	22	19
RMIT University	33	36
University of Newcastle	40	47
The University of Qld	37	43
Monash University	41	51-100
Curtin University	51-100	51-100
Griffith University	51-100	51-100
Qld University of Technology	51-100	51-100
University of SA	51-100	51-100

The 2016 QS World Rankings by Subject - architecture and built environment disciplines

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/ United States
2. UCL (University College London))/ United Kingdom
3. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)/ United States
4. Delft University of Technology / Netherlands
5. Harvard University / United States
6. University of Cambridge / United Kingdom
7. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology / Switzerland
8. Tsinghua University / China
9. National University of Singapore (NUS)/ Singapore
10. Manchester School of Architecture / United Kingdom
11. The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
12. Columbia University / United States
13. The University of Tokyo / Japan
14. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) / United States
15. Politecnico di Milano / Italy
16. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Hong Kong
17. The University of Sydney / Australia
18. The University of Melbourne / Australia
19. The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) / Australia
20. Cornell University / United States
21. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)/ Switzerland
22. Tongji University / China
23. Stanford University / United States
24. KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Sweden
25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / United States
26. University of Pennsylvania / United States
27. University of British Columbia / Canada
28. Georgia Institute of Technology / United States
29. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) / Chile
30. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Spain
31. Seoul National University / South Korea
32. Princeton University / United States
33. University of Toronto / Canada
34. University of Texas at Austin / United States
35. Cardiff UniversityCardiff University / United Kingdom
36. RMIT University / Australia
37. Eindhoven University of Technology / Netherlands
38. The University of Sheffield / United Kingdom
39. Universidade de São Paulo / Brazil
40. Technische Universität München / Germany
41. Yale UniversityYale University / United States
42. Kyoto University / Japan
43. The University of Queensland / Australia
44. The University of Auckland / New Zealand
45. University of Michigan / United States
46. University of Salford / United Kingdom
47. Carnegie Mellon University / United States
48. The University of Newcastle, Australia (UoN) / Australia
49. KU Leuven / Belgium
50. Politecnico di Torino / Italy

Nathan Johnson

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