The top-tier universities in Australia are known as The Group of Eight (Go8) These leading universities are leading in excellence and leading debate. The Go8 is a company and registered in 1999. The directorate is in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The chief executive of Go8 is Ms. Vicki Thomson. The Go8’s chair is Professor Mark Scott AO, Vice-Chancellor and President, The University of Sydney.
The Go8 rankings
In world rankings, Go8 universities are consistently ranked first in Australia. Seven of the Go8’s members are among the world’s top 100 universities, and all are among the top 150 universities, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Times Higher Education Rankings (THES), and the QS World University Rankings.
The Go8 students
The Go8 is proud of its dedication to excellence: enrolling outstanding students from all backgrounds and graduating them as tomorrow’s leaders in Australia and around the world.
The Go8 teaches 425,000 students, accounting for more than one-quarter of all higher education students in Australia. Every year, it graduates approximately 110,000 high-quality graduates. It has 160,000 foreign students from 200 countries, with one-third of Australian international students preferring to study at a Go8 university.
More than half of Australia’s doctors, dentists, and veterinarians are educated at Go8 universities, which also produce approximately 54% of science graduates and more than 40% of engineering graduates. Almost one-third of Go8 students (at all levels of study) are the first members of their families to attend university. One in every five beginning undergraduates comes from a low-income, regional, or distant setting. (Over 26,000 Australian students from regional and remote areas attend a Go8 university.). Go8 bachelor completion rates are greater than other colleges, with Go8 members ranking in the top six for completions.
Further information on studying Go8
Economic contribution of Go8 universities
- The Go8 participate in Australian economy
- Go8 research contributes $24.5 billion every year
- The Go8 create more than 50,000
- $17.98 billion every year revenues have been generated through Go8 students
The Go8 universities are listed as follows:
- The University of Melbourne
- The University of Sydney
- The Australian National University
- The University of Queensland
- The University of Western Australia
- The University of Adelaide
- Monash University
- The University of New South Wales (UNSW)
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