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