University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public research university in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1850, it is Australia's first university, and it admitted its first students in 1852. Its main Camperdown and Darlington campus sits in the inner west, centered on the sandstone Quadrangle. Teaching and clinical sites extend across metropolitan Sydney. It is a founding member of the Group of Eight research universities.

Its faculties and schools include Arts and Social Sciences, the Business School, Engineering, Medicine and Health, Science, Sydney Law School, the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. It is known for medicine and public health, veterinary science, law, agriculture and physics. Major research units include the Charles Perkins Centre for obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, the Brain and Mind Centre, and the University of Sydney Nano Institute.

The university enrolls more than 70,000 students. Postgraduates make up well over a third, and international students more than 40 percent, with the largest groups from China and other parts of Asia. Alumni include five Australian prime ministers: Edmund Barton, Gough Whitlam, John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull and Anthony Albanese.

Postgraduate study is divided into coursework master's degrees, which include the MBA, professional health degrees and engineering and data science programs, and higher degrees by research. Research candidates in PhD and MPhil programs are supervised by an academic supervisor from their first year and may receive Research Training Program scholarships and university stipends. The academic year runs in two main semesters, from February to June and from July to November. The Camperdown campus is close to Newtown and the central business district, and most students rent in the surrounding inner-city suburbs.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Sydney lists 58 graduate programs across 33 subjects: 47 master's programs and 8 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in computer science, business & management and data science & business analytics. University of Sydney holds rank 46 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.