Group of Eight (go8) World Rankings

1. Average Group of Eight (go8) World Rankings
The Group of Eight is generally regarded as a grouping of the top ranking Australian universities with most of them sharing a long history and a well-developed research focus.The average shows the relative average placement of each of the Group of Eight universities on the major world ranking systems taken as a whole.
Rank | University | Average | |
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University of Melbourne | 33 |
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University of Sydney | 50 |
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University of Queensland | 54 |
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Australian National University | 54 |
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Monash University | 75 |
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University of New South Wales | 77 |
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University of Western Australia | 100 |
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University of Adelaide | 116 |
Key & Notes
* Average refers to the sum of the rankings attained on each of the major world ranking systems divided by the number of ranking systems from which that sum has been calculated
2. Individual Ranking Systems
It is interesting to look at how the Group of Eight universities compare with each other using the four ranking systems of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), Shanghai Ranking Consultancy’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), and US News.
University | QS | THE | ARWU | USN | |
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University of Melbourne | 38 | 32 | 38 | 26 |
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Australian National University | 29 | 49 | 69 | 69= |
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University of Sydney | 42 | 59 | 68 | 34= |
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University of Queensland | 47 | 69 | 55 | 45 |
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Monash University | 58 | 84 | 91 | 68 |
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University of New South Wales | 43 | 96 | 101+ | 69= |
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University of Western Australia | 86 | 134 | 93 | 88= |
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University of Adelaide | 106 | 135 | 101+ | 122 |
Key & Notes
* Average refers to the
* QS refers to the QS Australian Universities World University Rankings
* THE refers to the Times Higher Education Australian Universities Rankings
* ARWU refers to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities
* USN refers to the US News Australian Rankings
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