HASS Research Ranking Highlights

• Ranked 126-50 overall in Arts and Humanities.
• Ranked 32 overall in Research Environment for Arts and Humanities.
• Ranked 40 in Education and placed 4th in Australia.
• Ranked 68 in Social Sciences and placed 4th in Australia.

The Times Higher Education subject rankings 2025 include more than 2000 universities across 115 countries and regions. These rankings measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.

• 41st in the world - Education & Training
• 45th in the world - Development Studies
• 47th in the world - Archaeology
• 47th in the world - Social Science and Management

The QS Top University Rankings for 2025 measure a university’s performance across a number of indicators including academic reputation, teaching quality and research output.

• 39th in Arts and Humanities
• 42nd in Education and Educational Research
• 30th in Social Sciences and Public Health

The U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings assess over 2,000 institutions worldwide, including subject-specific rankings across 51 academic areas based on research performance and reputation. These rankings highlight global leaders in academic research across a wide range of disciplines.

• Sociology placed 41st in the world and 2nd in Australia
• Education placed 26th in the world and 2nd in Australia
• Political Science placed 3rd in Australia

The full methodology for 2024 is available here, including definitions of all indicators and indicator weightings for each subject area.

The National Taiwan University (NTU) Ranking has published its latest Overall, Field, and Subject rankings of world universities based on the performance of their scientific papers.

• 17th in the world in the 'Social Sciences, General' catergory
• 4th in Oceania in the 'Social Sciences, General' catergory

The data also places our disciplines 33^rd in the world in relation to the number of publications belonging to the top 10% in their field.

• 4th in Oceania for number of Top 10 publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities
• 17th in the world for the number of research publications in the Social Sciences and Social Sciences
• 33rd in the world in relation to the number of Top 10 publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities

The Leiden Ranking is based on bibliographic data on scientific publications, in particular on articles published in scientific journals. More information here.