Group of Eight (Australian universities)

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The Group of Eight (Go8 or G8) comprises Australia's most research intensive universities (in alphabetical order) – the Australian National University, Monash University, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, and University of Western Australia. It is often compared to the Russell Group of research universities in the United Kingdom.[1]

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

University City Established International Rankings
QS World
(2025)[6] 		THE World
(2025)[7] 		US News
(2023)[8] 		ARWU World
(2023)[9] 		Scimago
(2022)[10] 		URAP
(2022)[11] 		NTU
(2022)[12] 		Leiden
(2022)[13]Template:NoteTag 		Average
Australian National University Canberra 1946 30 73 62 84 232 161 150 236 129
University of Melbourne Melbourne 1853 13 39 27 35 29 22 20 29 27
University of Sydney Sydney 1850 18 61 28 73 34 18 26 33 36
University of New South Wales Sydney 1949 19 83 37= 72 62 35 44 52 51
University of Queensland Brisbane 1909 40= 77 36 51 60 36 33 45 47
Monash University Melbourne 1958 37 58 37= 77 58 32 35 50 48
University of Western Australia Perth 1911 77 149= 83 101–150 224 119 111 200 136Template:NoteTag
University of Adelaide Adelaide 1874 82= 128= 74= 151–200 200 150 113 209 141Template:NoteTag

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