Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences - University of Queensland

The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is ranked as one of the top research institutions among leading universities worldwide.

Based at the UQ St Lucia campus, we bring together hundreds of subject experts and over 850 higher degree students across our disciplines.

Among our academic staff (current and retired) we are proud to have many Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

2023 ARWU Subject rankings

The ARWU is published by the independent higher education consultancy. The rankings consider the number of highly cited researchers and articles published in high-ranking journals, as well as alumni and staff awards.

2023 Times Higher Education Subject Rankings

Ranked 91 in Arts & Humanities and placed 5th in Australia.
Ranked 40in Education and placed 4th in Australia.
Ranked 77 in Social Sciences and placed 3rd in Australia.

The Times Higher Education subject rankings are brought together by scores across five categories: citations, industry income, international outlook, research and teaching.

2023 CWTS Leiden Ranking

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.

2023 QS World University Rankings by Subject

40th in the world - Education
Top 100 in the world - Linguistics
Top 100 in the world - Philosophy
Top 100 in the world - Politics
Top 100 in the world - Anthropology
Top 100 in the world - English Language & Literature
46th in the world - Sociology
Top 100 in the world - Social Policy and Administration

The QS Top University Rankings for 2023 measure a university’s performance across a number of indicators including academic reputation, teaching quality and research output.

Excellence in Research Australia (ERA)

Specialised fields of research rated at the highest level (5):

Excellence in Research (ERA) is Australia’s national research evaluation framework. It identifies excellence across Australia’s higher education institutions and compares Australia's university research effort against international benchmarks.