Go8 Indicators

The  Group of Eight (Go8) is a coalition of leading Australian  universities,  comprehensive in general and professional education and  distinguished by depth  and breadth in research.

Go8  universities can be distinguished in the  following ways:

• they have nurtured every Nobel prize winner educated at an Australian  university
• they contribute over 70% of the Fellows of the four Australian learned  academies
• they are the most research concentrated of all Australian universities
• they account for more than two thirds of Australian university research  activity, research output and research training.  

The  Go8 is often asked why it is not the Group of Nine or Ten. This  analysis of  data across a range of important indicators from research  income to  student-staff ratios shows there is no clear potential ninth  member of the  group.

What  these statistics do not reveal is how well Australian  universities compare to  the best in the world. A dominant national  position may fall well short of  global prominence. What matters most  for Australia is how well the best  national universities compare with  the world’s best. It is not possible for a  nation to have a “world  class higher education system” without some world class  universities.

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