University of Sydney

How it scores

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country (Australia).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Median graduate salary (QILT)

A$76,000 src

Alumni founders of VC-backed companies (PitchBook)

362 src

Alumni worth $30M+ (Altrata estimate)

900 src

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)

45 src

Heads of state or government (Wikidata)

9 src

Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni

not on the published top lists; estimated

Students (undergraduate / total)

41,660 / 77,556 src

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =154. On strength alone: =41. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field

13.3% (12.9%–13.7%)

Papers in the top 1% of their field

1.5% (1.4%–1.7%)

Top-10% papers (fractional count)

2,301

All papers (fractional count)

17,327

International co-authored

57.7%

Open access

65.8%

Papers from 2020–23 since retracted

25 (0.53 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Position over time

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.