UTS has leapt 36 places in a ranking of the world's young universities by the influential Times Higher Education publication in the UK.
The newly-released Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 for 2014 has seen UTS improve its ranking to 47th in the world and fifth among the 14 Australian universities in the top 100.
In the 2013 ranking UTS was placed 10th among young Australian universities and 83rd in the world. Among the four Australian Technology Network universities included UTS is now second ranked.
Times Higher Education says its 100 Under 50 ranking, "provides a glimpse into the future, showcasing not those institutions with centuries of history, but the rising stars which show great potential."
The 100 Under 50 is calculated on same range of 13 performance indicators used in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but "the weighting placed on subjective indicators of academic prestige has been reduced." The indicators cover teaching, research, research influence, industry income and international outlook.
UTS Vice-Chancellor Professor Ross Milbourne said that just past its 25th anniversary, UTS is well on the way to achieving the vision of being a world-leading university of technology.
"In the face of increasingly strong global competition, this is an outstanding result and testament to the hard work of UTS staff.
"Times Higher Education has praised its 100 Under 50 as a new breed of universities that have managed to attain global preeminence in decades rather than centuries," Professor Milbourne said. "We are shaping the future of learning through design of a new suite of spaces and UTS is positioned to be the very model of the institution they describe."
The latest result follows UTS being named among the top 25 most international universities by Times Higher Education in January. In the same month UTS appeared prominently in another "under 50" ranking, being placed first in Australia and 20th in the world for universities under 50 years old in the QS Top 50 Under 50.
- The 2014 Times Higher Education assessment of the top 100 "young" universities has seen UTS improve its ranking to 47th in the world and fifth among the 14 Australian universities in the top 100
- The 100 Under 50 ranking is intended to showcase "a new breed of universities that have managed to attain global preeminence in decades rather than centuries"