The Australian Research Council announced grants last night, including 653 Discovery Grants chosen from 2921 applications.

The Group of Eight universities picked up 68 per cent of grants, up 8 per cent on its share for the comparable 2017 round. UNSW led with 88 grants, followed by the University of Queensland (67), Monash (65), University of Sydney (62), University of Melbourne (57) ANU (56), University of Adelaide (29) and UWA (25).

Other universities which won 10 or more grants are Macquarie U (25),  Uni Newcastle (17), Deakin U (15), Flinders U (15), QUT (15), Curtin U (13), U Tas (13), Griffith U (12), UTS (12), Uni Wollongong (ten) and Western Sydney U (ten).

Universities with ten or plus grants and had a success rate at or above the 22.4 per cent national average are, Deakin U (31.3 per cent), Flinders U (28.8 per cent), Western Sydney U (28.6 per cent), ANU (28.1 per cent), UNSW (27.8 per cent), UoQ (26 per cent),  Uni Sydney (24.8 per cent), Uni Adelaide (24.2 per cent), Monash U (23.7 per cent) and U Tas (22.4 per cent).