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Top ranked in Australia

���������¼� frequently ranks among the top universities worldwide for Mathematics and Statistics, and enjoys a long history of number one rankings nationally.��

���������¼� is the only Australian university to feature in the top 75 in the world for Mathematics in the three major and influential world university rankings in 2023 simultaneously: 2023 QS World University Rankings (48), the 2022-2023 US News Global Universities Ranking (73) and the 2023 Times Higher Education (71). ���������¼� has also consistently ranked in the top three universities in Australia for Mathematics according to the US News Global Universities and the QS World University Rankings.�� 

In the QS World University Rankings, in 2024 we ranked , and ranked .��

Each year from 2016-2023, the  has placed us as the number one institution in Australia for Mathematics.��

The ,��, 2020 and 2019  for Mathematics positioned us as first in the country.��

���������¼� ranked equal first in Australia for Mathematics in the 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), and first in Australia in the 2020,��2019,��2018,��2015,��2014,��2013,��2012 and 2011 ARWU rankings.

placed our School #1 in Australia for Mathematics from 2021-2025.

���������¼� Mathematics and Statistics topped the list for the fields of Algebra�����Ի���Computational Mathematics in The Australian’s Research Magazine in 2024.��

Up to 2020, we are the only Australian university to feature in the top 100 in the world for Mathematics in all five of the ARWU, the US News Global Universities, the CWTS Leiden, NTU, and the QS World University Rankings.��

Awards

Our academic staff frequently win prestigious awards for their research. Below we have listed some highlights, but you can find more in our News section.��

• Gary Froyland won the 2025 JD Crawford Prize for his work on Spectral analysis of climate dynamics with operator-theoretic approaches, which significantly advances the theory of complex fluid flow with application to climate science.
• Several staff members have won the , an early-career award recognising outstanding research in the mathematical sciences: Anita Liebenau (2025), Vera Roshchina (2021), Zdravko Botev (2018), Catherine Greenhill (2015), David Warton (2014) and Josef Dick (2012).��
• Trevor McDougall was awarded the 2025 Alfred Wegener Medal of the European Geosciences Union, which recognises exceptional scientific achievements in the Earth Sciences.�� 
• Jeya Jeyakumar, Guoyin Li, and PhD candidate Queenie Huang won the 2024 Marguerite Frank Award for best EJCO paper.
• Mareike Dressler was selected for the 2024 J G Russell Award.��Awardees are selected by the Australian Academy of Science from the highly ranked recipients of ARC DECRAs.��
• Trevor McDougall was awarded the 2023 NSW Premier’s Prize for Scientist of the Year. His major discoveries have positioned Australia at the forefront of ocean physics and climate research.��
• Trevor McDougall received the 2022 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for his ground-breaking research which has transformed all oceanographic practice and the field of ocean thermodynamics.
• Guoyin Li won the 2022 AustMS Medal for outstanding contributions to optimization, variational analysis and multilinear algebra. His body of work positions him as one of the most dynamic and influential young researchers in the Australian mathematical community.
• Igor Shparlinski won the 2022 George Szekeres Medal for notable contributions in many areas of mathematics, with specialisms in number theory and its applications.
• Fedor Sukochev was announced as the top researcher in the field of Mathematical Analysis for three years in a row in The Australian’s Research Magazine (2023, 2022, 2021), which publishes an annual list of the top researchers and best research institutions across 250 individual fields of research nationally.��
• Jan Zika won the 2020 Australian Academy of Science Anton Hales Medal for his contributions to understanding the vital role of the ocean in the global climate system.
• David Harvey won the 2019 Australian Mathematical Society Medal for his work in the fields of algorithmic number theory and computer algebra.��
• Guoyin Li was announced as a field leader in Computational Optimisation in The Australian’s Research Magazine (2019), which publishes an annual list of the top researchers and best research institutions across 250 individual fields of research nationally. ���������¼� Sydney was named as the "leading institution" nationally for Computational Mathematics.��
• Zdravko Botev and colleagues were awarded the 2019 Gavin Brown Prize,��recognising “an outstanding single article, monograph or book consisting of original research in Pure Mathematics”, published within the decade preceding the year of the award.
• Guoyin Li and Vaithilingam Jeyakumar won the 2019 Journal of Global Optimization Best Paper Award for their paper, Extended trust-region problems with one or two balls: exact copositive and Lagrangian relaxations, co-written with Immanuel M.��Bomze.��
• Guoyin Li won the ICCM Best Paper Award for his paper, Global Convergence of Splitting Methods for Nonconvex Composite Optimization, published in the SIAM Journal on Optimization,��and co-authored with Ting Kei Pong.
• Trevor McDougall was awarded the 2018 Companion of the Order of Australia, “For eminent service to science, and to education, particularly in the area of ocean thermodynamics, as an academic, and researcher, to furthering the understanding of climate science, and as a mentor of young scientists.”
• David Hunt was awarded the 2018 Medal of the Order of Australia (General Division), “For service to education, and to mathematics.” 
• Jan Zika received a 2018 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award. Dr Zika was honoured by EGU for his important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences.
• Professor McDougall won the 2017 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science and Engineering,��for Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Physics. In 2015 he received the Australian Academy of Science Jaeger Medal, which honours the contribution to science in Australia of the late Professor John Jaeger FAA, FRS.