The ICG is now an internationally renowned center of excellence for cosmological research with funding from the main UK and European agencies (STFC, RS, EC, HEFCE). In the 2008 UK government Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), 75% of the ICG research was judged to be "Internationally Excellent" or better (3* or 4* status, with 4* being the highest). This ranking places the ICG in the top 5 Applied Maths groups in the UK.