The University of Origin analysis, available online, reflects a university’s performance in producing graduates who go on to train as specialist GPs and Rural Generalists (RGs) in the Commonwealth-funded Australian GP Training (AGPT) Program, relative to the size of the student cohort. 

It combines data from the Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and is the first such analysis by any specialist medical college. 

The University of Origin report will inform future research, policymaking, and potentially targeted interventions to strengthen the GP training pipeline. It found: 

• the overall top three universities, by percentage of cohort who enrolled in GP training in 2025, are: James Cook University (JCU) – 52%, the University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle) (UNDA Fremantle) – 50.5%, and the University of Wollongong (UoW) – 45.6% 

• the top universities for metropolitan GP training were Bond University, UNDA Fremantle, and UNDA Sydney  

• JCU also led for regional, rural, and remote GP training, followed by the University of Tasmania and UoW 

• the top universities by absolute numbers were Monash University – 115, the University of Queensland (UQ) – 107 and JCU – 90, reflecting the larger cohorts of Monash, UQ, and other established metropolitan universities. 

Nearly a third (32.9%) of the average medical school cohort entered specialist GP training, around double the 14.4–18.8% of final year medical students who named GP or RG training as their first preference in surveys. 

The University of Origin analysis also found 80% of the GP cohort commences specialist training within five years of graduation, allowing doctors who train as GPs to commence specialist practice sooner than most of their peers.