Group of Eight (Australian universities)

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Group of Eight
Formation1999
Type Nonprofit organisation
HeadquartersCanberra, ACT
Location
  • Australia
Membership
University of Adelaide
Australian National University
University of Melbourne
Monash University
UNSW Sydney
University of Queensland
University of Sydney
University of Western Australia
Website www.go8.edu.au

The Group of Eight (Go8) comprises Australia's most research intensive universities (in alphabetical order) - the University of Adelaide, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia. It is often compared to the Russell Group of pioneering research universities in the United Kingdom. [1]

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Overview

The Go8 universities are some of the largest and the oldest universities in Australia [2] and are consistently the highest ranked of all Australian universities. Seven of the Go8 members are ranked in the world's top 100 universities and all Go8 members are ranked in the world's top 150 universities; in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the QS World University Rankings and the U.S. News & World Report. Go8 Universities feature in the top 50 for every broad subject area in the QS world university subject rankings. In addition, all Go8 Universities are in the QS top 100 for Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Medicine, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences and Management. [3]

The Go8 educates 425,000 students; educating more than one quarter of all higher education students in Australia. It graduates some 110,000 graduates each year. [3]

The Go8 undertakes 70 per cent of Australia's university research and their research funding from industry and other non-Government sources is twice that of the rest of the sector combined. [3]

The Go8 receives 71 per cent of Australian Competitive Grant (Category 1) funding and had the largest proportion of research fields rated at 4 or 5 ('above' or 'well above' world standard) in the latest Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercise, with 99 per cent of Go8 research is world class or above. Each year the Go8 spends some $6.5 billion on research – more than $2.4 billion of which is spent on Medical and Health Services research. Go8 universities educate more than half of Australia's doctors, dentists, vets and provide some 54 per cent of Australia's science graduates and more than 40 per cent of Australia's engineering graduates. [4]

The Go8 Board, which consists of the vice-chancellors (who also serve as principals or presidents) of its eight member universities, meets five times a year. The current Chair of the Board is Professor Brian Schmidt, Vice-Chancellor and President of The Australian National University, appointed in 2023. Vicki Thomson is the Chief Executive of the Group of Eight, taking up the role in January 2015. [5]

Members

UniversityCityEstablishedRankings
QS World
(2024) [6] 		THE World
(2024) [7] 		US News
(2023) [8] 		ARWU World
(2023) [9] 		Scimago
(2022) [10] 		URAP
(2022) [11] 		NTU
(2022) [12] 		Leiden
(2022) [13] [note 1] 		Average
Australian National University Canberra 194634676284232161150236128
University of Melbourne Melbourne 1853143727352922202927
University of Sydney Sydney 185019= 6028733418263336
University of New South Wales Sydney 194919= 8437= 726235445251
University of Queensland Brisbane 1909437036516036334547
Monash University Melbourne 1958425437= 775832355048
University of Western Australia Perth 191172143= 83101-150224119111200135 [note 2]
University of Adelaide Adelaide 187489111= 74= 151-200200150113209140 [note 3]

Equals signs (=) denote tied rankings.

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Locations of each Group of Eight university main campus

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ measured by the impact indicator P(top 1%), ordered by P(top 1%) using fractional counting.
  2. ↑ 101-150 averaged to 125.5 for the purposes of the combined average
  3. ↑ 151-200 averaged to 175.5 for the purposes of the combined average

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