As of August 2012 UQDS is ranked 14th best in the World and 5th best in Australia, on 17008 points [REF].
As of 2011 UQDS was ranked 6th best in the World, with equal points with Monash University which was 5th, and behind the University of Sydney at first, the University of Oxford, Yale University and University of Cambridge respectively, at the World Universities Debating Championship [REF].