There’s great news for 100 applicants leaving 525 to wonder what to do now

The Australian Research Council’s big mid-career Future Fellowships are announced. The successful 100 applicants (same as last year) share $94m (ditto).

who got them: Women were a third of applicants, with a success rate of 15.3 per cent. Some 16.4 per cent of the much larger (415) pool of men received fellowships.

where they went: as usual many went to the big five, UNSW (14), Monash U (11), Uni Queensland (ten) Uni Melbourne (nine) and Uni Sydney (seven), just ahead of ANU with (six).

Of the other two Group of Eight members  Uni Adelaide has one new fellow and UWA none.

Other institutions that did well (five or more awards) are Macquarie U with five and UTS with six.

However, the success rate for universities making a major investment in applications, say ten or more, demonstrates different per centage outcomes.

The Australian National University	31	6	19.4
Macquarie University	19	5	26.3
The University of New South Wales	70	14	20.0
The University of Newcastle	15	3	20.0
The University of Sydney	62	7	11.3
University of Technology Sydney	21	6	28.6
University of Wollongong	22	4	18.2
Queensland University of Technology	27	3	11.1
The University of Queensland	54	10	18.5
Flinders University	14	3	21.4
The University of Adelaide	25	1	4.0
University of Tasmania	10	3	30.0
Deakin University	16	4	25.0
La Trobe University	10	1	10.0
Monash University	46	11	23.9
RMIT University	27	4	14.8
Swinburne University of Technology	11	2	18.2
The University of Melbourne	58	9	15.5
Curtin University	11	2	18.2