Group of Eight (Go8) universities

The Group of Eight (Go8) comprises Australia’s leading research-intensive universities: 

-The University of Melbourne

-The Australian National University

-The University of Sydney

-The University of Queensland

-The University of Western Australia

-The University of Adelaide

-Monash University

-University of New South Whales (UNSW) Sydney.

In world rankings Go8 universities are consistently the highest ranked in Australia. Seven of the Go8’s members are 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 (ARWU) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Times Higher Education Rankings (THES) and the QS World University Rankings (QS).

99 per cent of Go8 research is world class or above. Each year the Go8 spends some $6 billion on research – more than $2 billion of which is spent on Medical and Health Services research.

The Go8 educates 380,000 students – more than a quarter of all higher education students in Australia. It graduates some 96,000 quality graduates each year.

Its student cohort includes 100,000 international students from some 200 countries, with one in three of Australia’s international students choosing to study at a Go8 university.

Go8 universities educate more than half of Australia’s doctors, dentists and vets and provide some 55 per cent of Australia’s science graduates and more than 40 per cent of Australia’s engineering graduates.

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