Group of Eight (Australian universities)

Group of Eight
Formation 1999
Type Nonprofit organisation
Location
  • Australia
Membership
8
Website go8.edu.au

The Group of Eight (Go8) is a coalition of research-intensive Australian universities.[1] The Go8 universities are some of the largest and the oldest universities in Australia.[2] Several Go8 universities, along with the University of Tasmania, are called the Sandstone or Brick universities.[3]

Members

Location of Group of Eight universities.
Member Universities
University Location Established World University Rankings (2015)[4]
QS World (2016/17)[5] ARWU World (2016)[6] THE World (2016/17)[7] U.S. News (2015/16)[8] CWTS Leiden (2016)[9] CWUR (2016)[10]
Australian National University Canberra 1946 22 77= 47 80 190 160
Monash University Melbourne 1958 65 79= 74 84 60 143
University of Adelaide Adelaide 1874 125 101-150 142 184 201 319
University of Melbourne Melbourne 1853 42 40 33= 40 34 89
University of New South Wales Sydney 1949 49= 101-150 78= 90 58 117
University of Queensland Brisbane 1909 51= 55 60= 52 41 99
University of Sydney Sydney 1850 46= 82 60= 51 32 95
University of Western Australia Perth 1911 102= 96= 125 128 148 213

See also

References

  1. ↑ Williams, R; Van Dyke, N (2007). "Measuring the international standing of universities with an application to Australian universities". Higher Education. 53 (6): 819–841.
  2. ↑ Neumann, R (2002). "Diversity, doctoral education and policy." Higher Education Research and Development". 21 (2): 167–178.
  3. ↑ Williams, R (2010). "Research Output of Australian Universities: Are the Newer Institutions Catching up?". Australian Universities' Review. 52 (1): 32–36.
  4. ↑ "Australia - Countries - UniversityRankings.ch / Institutions". universityrankings.ch. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "QS World University Rankings 2016/17". Quacquarelli Symonds. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2016". Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "World University Rankings 2016-17". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Top World University Rankings | US News Best Global Universities". www.usnews.com. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  9. ↑ "CWTS Leiden Ranking 2016". Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University.
  10. ↑ "CWUR 2016 | Top 1000 Universities in the World". cwur.org. Retrieved 2016-07-19.

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