The Dean of Arts sent this round recently:

Sydney University has been ranked in the influential Times Higher Education Supplement 2006 World Rankings as the fifth best Arts/Humanities group in the world (behind Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Berkeley). The rankings are based on a number of indicators:
Peer Review (40%)
Recruiter Review (10%)
Staff/Student Ratio (20%)
Citations (20%)
International Faculty/Staff (5%)
International Students (5%)

No idea what all those figures mean and you have to subscribe to the Times Higher Education Supplement in order to view the full specs of their rankings (you can get a 14 day trial free though). So it’s nice to know that I have an Arts degree from a faculty that is currently ranked 5th in the world (though not when I was doing it. Frankly, I think it was better then, we certainly had a lot more course options). Hope this means that the University’s central administration might actually be a little less dismissive of the Faculty and stop forcing it to cut courses and departments (oops sorry, disciplines, they’ve already been merged).
[note this is part of me clearing my inbox so counts as me working!]