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Western Sydney University

AustraliaOceania

#400

QS World University Rankings 2026

37.5

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#400

QS World University Rankings 2026

#384

QS World University Rankings 2025

37.5

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
26.3
QS 2026 rank
#480

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
22.5
QS 2026 rank
#593

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
7.4
QS 2026 rank
#801

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
44.5
QS 2026 rank
#419

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
100
QS 2026 rank
#59

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
67.7
QS 2026 rank
#292

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
70.9
QS 2026 rank
#263

International research network

QS 2026 score
87.3
QS 2026 rank
#211

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
11.8
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
82.6
QS 2026 rank
#140
University profile

About Western Sydney University

Western Sydney University links schools, institutes, research groups, and centres in one research map

Western Sydney University's public pages connect its schools, research institutes, research groups, research centres, research profiles and repository, research infrastructure, and research portal. The school list includes business, computer, data and mathematical sciences, education, engineering, health sciences, arts, law, medicine, nursing and midwifery, psychology, science, social sciences, and built environment and design. This range is useful for initial discovery, but a school name is not a complete account of local research. A question about health, data, environment, cities, culture, technology, or community can involve several schools and different forms of evidence. The strongest connection comes from a closer public record that names the object and setting.

The university's about page also separates leadership and governance, research, learning futures, schools, research institutes, campuses and structure, and community engagement. These routes answer different questions. Governance material can explain institutional direction. A school page can establish a disciplinary home. An institute or centre can point to a more focused research environment. A repository record can identify a research output. An infrastructure page may describe a resource or service. Treating these records separately helps a reader avoid turning a broad university category into a claim about a particular project, research group, or method.

Western's institutes and centres open different routes into environment, health, culture, data, and community work

Western Sydney University lists institutes including the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Ingham Institute, Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture, Institute for Culture and Society, NICM Health Research Institute, the MARCS Institute, and the Translational Health Research Institute. It also names research groups in digital humanities, humanitarian and development research, and nanoscale organisation and dynamics. These titles create distinct paths for a topic. An environmental question may involve ecological observation, climate data, soil or vegetation evidence, and community conditions. A health question may need biological, clinical, behavioural, service, or population evidence. A culture question may use texts, images, archives, interviews, media, or community records.

The research-centre list adds routes such as the Australia India Water Centre, Centre for Educational Research, Centre for Infrastructure Engineering, Centre for Research in Mathematics and Data Science, Centre for Smart Modern Construction, Centre for Western Sydney Chinese Medicine, Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre, NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre, Urban Transformations Research Centre, and Writing and Society Research Centre. These labels are helpful because they narrow a broad field into a visible organisational setting. They do not establish each centre's current projects, methods, or people without a closer local page.

At Western Sydney University, an evidence-bearing local record should guide the comparison

Start a Western Sydney University inquiry with an inspectable object. It might be a water system, a bushfire pattern, a built-environment process, a mathematical model, a neural system, a crop condition, a health-service question, a cultural practice, a learning setting, or a social change. Then name the evidence that could answer it: observations, samples, laboratory results, sensor data, spatial records, datasets, code, documents, interviews, surveys, images, archives, or field notes. This makes the institute and centre map easier to use. It asks which visible record addresses the same object and evidence rather than merely sharing a topic word.

The final statement should follow the public trail carefully. A Western Sydney University overview can show that a school, institute, group, centre, repository, or research-infrastructure route exists. It cannot confirm an active project, an individual's availability, access to equipment, or a method that is not described in a local source. When a close page connects a research object with a named setting, record that link directly. When only a broad centre title is visible, preserve the open question. This method produces a profile that supports focused exploration while keeping its claims within the limits of public evidence.

Institution record

Country
Australia
Region
Oceania
Status
Public
QS size code
XL
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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