Ranking and performance
In 1999, UNSW was ranked 8th around the Asia-Pacific region and 1st among Australian universities by Asiaweek [8]. The position moved to 10th in Asia and 2nd in Australia in 2000 [9], and the ranking had been discontinued since then.
UNSW is ranked in the band 151 - 202 by the authoritative Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The 2004 Times Higher Education Supplement world university ranked UNSW at 36th in the world's top 200 universities. In 2005 the position has moved to 40th.[15] Furthermore in the same survey, the university has been ranked 16th for Technology, 24th for social science, 40th for Science and 41st for biomedicine.
In 2004, the Financial Times Global MBA ranking places UNSW's Australian Graduate School of Management 53rd in the world beating USYD, top among Australian Business Schools. In 2005, its position dropped to 84th, and in 2006 it rose again to 75th making it second nationally following Melbourne Business School.[16] In 2007, the school has again overtaken Melbourne as the top full-time MBA program in the country, being placed at 49th worldwide, and is one of the two leading business-degree providers across the Asia-Pacific region.[17] From the same survey, the school's Executive MBA program has been placed 23rd,[18] and is the only Australian business school featured in the rankings for 6 consecutive years. AGSM alumni achieved an average salary of US$133,768, an average increase of 74 percent after three years of graduation.[18]
In 2006, UNSW ranks third for both total funds allocated and the number of grants from the Australian Research Council among Australian universities following University of Sydney and Australian National University, by securing more than $26 million[19] in Discovery Project grants. The University also gains the highest number of Linkage Project grants of any university.[20]
