Group of Eight (Australian universities)

Group of Eight

Formation	1999
Type	Nonprofit organisation
Headquarters	Canberra, 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

University	City	Established	Rankings
University	City	Established	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	1946	34	67	62	84	232	161	150	236	128
University of Melbourne	Melbourne	1853	14	37	27	35	29	22	20	29	27
University of Sydney	Sydney	1850	19=	60	28	73	34	18	26	33	36
University of New South Wales	Sydney	1949	19=	84	37=	72	62	35	44	52	51
University of Queensland	Brisbane	1909	43	70	36	51	60	36	33	45	47
Monash University	Melbourne	1958	42	54	37=	77	58	32	35	50	48
University of Western Australia	Perth	1911	72	143=	83	101-150	224	119	111	200	135^[note 2]
University of Adelaide	Adelaide	1874	89	111=	74=	151-200	200	150	113	209	140^[note 3]

Equals signs (=) denote tied rankings.

Map

Locations of each Group of Eight university main campus

Notes

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

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c Redding, Gordon; Buckingham, Edward (2020), "Group of Eight", The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education, Thousand Oaks, Cal.: SAGE Publications, pp. 672–676, doi:10.4135/9781529714395.n253, ISBN 9781473942912, S2CID 236855276, retrieved 23 May 2023
^ "About the Go8". Group of Eight Australia. 4 December 2021.
^ "The Go8 Team". Group of Eight Australia. 26 July 2017.
^ "QS World University Rankings 2024". Retrieved 8 June 2022.
^ "World University Rankings 2024". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
^ "Top World University Rankings | US News Best Global Universities". www.usnews.com. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
^ "Scimago Institutions Rankings". www.scimagoir.com. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ "URAP 2022-2023 | World Ranking 2022-2023". urapcenter.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
^ "By Country". nturanking.csti.tw. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
^ Studies (CWTS), Centre for Science and Technology. "CWTS Leiden Ranking". CWTS Leiden Ranking. Retrieved 20 October 2020.