Group of Eight (Australian universities)


The Group of Eight is a coalition of the top eight research intensive Australian universities. The Go8 universities are some of the largest and the oldest universities in Australia and are consistently the highest ranked of all Australian universities. In 2016 all Go8 Universities were ranked in the top 150 worldwide, with six in the top 100. Go8 Universities feature in the top 100 places for every subject area in the QS world university subject rankings. All Go8 Universities are in the QS top 100 for literature, biological sciences, environmental sciences, accounting and finance, anthropology, law and education.
The Go8 Board, which consists of the vice-chancellors of its eight member universities, meets five times a year. The current Chair of the Board is Professor Ian Jacobs, Vice-Chancellor, University of New South Wales. Ms Vicki Thomson is the Chief Executive of the Group of Eight, taking up the role in January 2015.
According to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, in 2008 the Group of Eight universities received almost twice as much research funding as the other 31 Australian universities combined.

Members

Equals signs denote tied rankings.

Map

Go8 law schools

Summary of schools

School rankings

It seems that the University of Melbourne secures the top position upon averaged overall and reputation rankings, followed by UNSW and the University of Sydney ; the University of Adelaide has the lowest averaged overall and reputation ranking. University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law secures the top position in averaged academic ranking indicators, followed by ANU and the University of Melbourne ; the University of Adelaide has the lowest average academic ranking.