QS World University Rankings® 2010/2011 Released. (June 2, 2011)

The latest QS universities rankings were released today and aside from the overall listing it has extensive listings by subjects. It even has an interactive section where you can create your own world university ranking with "Scorecard".

For comparison with the rankings by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, click here.

Within the arts and humanities sector QS subject list includes: English Language and Literature Rankings, Modern Languages Rankings, History Rankings, Philosophy Rankings, Geography & Area Studies Rankings and Linguistics Rankings.

Other sectors ranked:

• Engineering and Technology: Computer Science & Information Systems Rankings | Civil & Structural Engineering Rankings | Chemical Engineering Rankings | Electrical Engineering Rankings | Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Rankings,
  

• Life Sciences and Medicine: Medicine | Biological Sciences | Psychology
  

• Natural Sciences: Chemistry | Physics | Metallurgy | Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Earth Sciences

Links to the tables and the methodology followed are accessed from http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings.

Overall rankings are also given for the top 400 universities where those ranked between 401and 600 are rated in blocks of 50 and the final group of 50 are listed as 601+.

Here we list the top 50 in the QS rankings for 2010/2011. Four of the top ten are in the United Kingdom and six belong to the United States, with Cambridge piping Harvard for 1^st place.

ANU ranks 20^th,  Sydney-37, Melborne-38, Queensland-43, New South Wales-46.