Mo' Rankings, Mo' Bragging
I posted skeptically late last year On Academic Rankings. Some new rankings have come out, so it is time to brag or fret some more. The world renowned ARWU has come out with new rankings for Civil Engineering, and better still, for Transport.
I am pleased to report Sydney comes in 7th globally in Transport. None of this is my doing, I just got here, but nevertheless it is good to hear.
ARWU Transport Rankings World Rank Institution* Country Total Score Score on PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD 1 Delft University of Technology 274.9 100 2 Beijing Jiaotong University 267.5 79.9 3 University of California, Berkeley 265.5 86.3 4 University of Leeds 245.6 72.6 5 National University of Singapore 241.8 61.8 6 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 237.4 51.1 7 University of Sydney 236.7 78.7 8 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 234.7 62.8 9 The University of Texas at Austin 230.9 73.8 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 228.7 69.3 11 University of Maryland, College Park 228 74.9 12 Purdue University - West Lafayette 224.9 74.3 13 Georgia Institute of Technology 224.4 67.8 14 Tsinghua University 223.2 74 This is not how I would rank the universities, but feel free to look at the methodologies and construct your own.
The ARWU indicators and methodology are provided at: http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/Methodology-for-ShanghaiRanking-Global-Ranking-of-Academic-Subjects-2017.html#3
Sydney comes in at 32 globally in Civil Engineering (a bigger arena than transport usually). Again I am not responsible, and this is not how I would rank them, and it sure is puzzling how this is how it came out, and sadly we are behind local rival UNSW, but that is being worked on ...
ARWU Civil Engineering Rankings World Rank Institution* Country Total Score Score on PUB CNCI IC TOP AWARD 1 Tongji University 313.1 100 2 Lehigh University 252.1 39.7 3 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 250.9 63.9 4 The University of Texas at Austin 248.8 66.2 5 Polytechnic University of Madrid 226.9 59.4 6 Tsinghua University 226.1 85.8 7 National Technical University of Athens 217.2 54.7 8 University of California, Berkeley 213.7 72.6 8 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 213.7 67.9 10 University of Canterbury 204.2 36.4 11 The University of New South Wales 202.4 59.2 12 Western University 201.9 42 13 University of California, San Diego 197.3 39.6 14 Nanyang Technological University 192.8 56.4 15 University of California, Davis 189.9 56.1 16 University at Buffalo, the State University of New York 185.3 40.3 17 The University of Tokyo 183.9 47.1 18 Texas A&M University 183.7 77.8 19 University of Toronto 181.7 50.9 20 Purdue University - West Lafayette 180.2 63.6 21 Dalian University of Technology 176.2 75.8 22 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 174.4 76.6 23 Seoul National University 174.3 56 24 The University of Hong Kong 174.2 56.4 25 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne 173.8 53.8 26 Delft University of Technology 173.3 75.5 26 University of Stuttgart 173.3 36 28 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 172.8 59.2 29 McMaster University 172 36.4 30 Harbin Institute of Technology 171.7 69.4 31 Southeast University 170.6 73.8 32 University of Sydney 169.5 43.9 33 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 168.3 48