Sandstone College

Member of the Eight Australian Universities Consortium

Member of Pacific Rim Universities Consortium

Member of the Asia-Pacific Consortium for International Trade Education and Research

Member of the World University Consortium

2021 US News Ranking of Australian Universities #2

27th in 2021 US News World University Rankings

The University of Sydney, founded in 1850, is a world-leading research university located in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, Australia, the financial, trade and tourism center of the Southern Hemisphere. It is a member of Sandstone, the Eight Australian Universities, the Pacific Rim Association, the World University Consortium, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Academic Consortium for Artificial Intelligence in Global Universities, the International Consortium for New Engineering Education, and the Asia-Pacific Consortium for International Trade Education and Research. It is also a member of AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS accredited universities and CEMS, the European Global Management Education Consortium (only one university from each country region is selected). The University of Sydney focuses on combining theory and practice, and is ranked in the QS World Top 20 for Education, Law, Medicine, Accounting and Finance, Politics and International Studies, Architecture, Music, Literature, Linguistics, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, and Nursing.

The University of Sydney has a history of producing a range of important figures and its graduates have been firmly in the political and economic lifelines of Australia, including eight Australian Prime Ministers, a Nobel Laureate, 23 Supreme Court Justices, 101 Rhodes Scholars, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, the President of the International Court of Justice, the President of the World Bank, the President of the Reserve Bank of Australia, the President of Macquarie Group and other prominent political and business figures. With its high academic reputation and employer ratings, the University of Sydney has held the record of being the number one institution in Australia in terms of local students for decades. Michael Spencer, former Dean of the Faculty of Law at Oxford University, has taken up the position of President of the University of Sydney. The University of Sydney currently has exchange student agreements with 292 partner universities in 42 countries and territories around the world.