The Group of Eight (Go8) Deans of Engineering and Go8 universities can be distinguished in the following ways:

Associates is a coalition of Australia’s leading engineering

• The student intake is drawn from the top quartile of
faculties.
eligible applicants
The Group of Eight members are:
• They enrol over half of all higher degree by
• The University of Adelaide
research students
• The Australian National University
• The University of Melbourne • Three-quarters of Australia’s highly cited university

• Monash University researchers (top 0.5 per cent of all publishing authors
• The University of New South Wales in a given field) are from Go8 universities
• The University of Queensland • Go8 universities hold over 90 per cent of US patents
• The University of Sydney for inventions and generate 80 per cent of spin-off
• The University of Western Australia companies created by Australian universities
Associate members* are: • Go8 universities have nurtured every Nobel Prize winner
• The University of Newcastle educated at an Australian university
• The University of Wollongong
• They contribute over 70 per cent of the Fellows of the
four Australian learned academies

• They are members of several respected international

university consortia such as APRU, Universitas 21, the
International Alliance of Research Universities and the
Worldwide Universities Network
The University
of Queensland
• Go8 universities count among their alumni over 80 per
cent of all Australian Government Ministers including the
The University of
Western Australia The University of Newcastle
The University of New South Wales The University of Sydney
Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for
The University of Adelaide The University of Wollongong
The Australian National University Research and Innovation
The University of Melbourne
Monash University *The associate members were invited to join the Go8 Deans of
Engineering in recognition of the outstanding quality of their
engineering research, teaching and scholarship.
These ten universities (the Go8+ Engineering Faculties):
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY FUNDING,
• Offer internationally recognised and accredited degree AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL,
programs in engineering and related technologies to over 2009 ALLOCATIONS Go8+ Engineering Faculties
100
Other Australian University
70,000 students a year 90 Engineering Faculties
80
• Train the majority of international engineering students 70
at undergraduate and postgraduate by coursework level 60
50
and two-thirds of international higher degree by research

Percentage share (%)

40
engineering students enrolled in Australia 30
20
• Provide opportunities to encounter world-class research 10
in a number of diverse engineering fields 0
All Projects Discovery Linkage Linkage Australian
Projects Projects International Laureate
• Work with government and industry to produce world- Source: ARC National Competitive Grants Program Dataset Fellowship

class engineering and technological research • Won over 90 per cent of Australian Research Council
discovery funding for engineering and technology
allocated in 2009 and almost 80 per cent of the prestigious
new Australian Laureate Fellowships funding in these fields

• Produce two-thirds of the university sector’s engineering

and technology academic journal publications

• Are associated with over 80 per cent of the Australian

Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
fellows connected to Australian universities

• Share the benefits of engineering and technological

research with the community through licensing
agreements, spin-off companies, patents and other
IMAGE BY MONASH UNIVERSITY
methods of commercialisation
CONTACTS

The University of New South Wales The University of Newcastle

The Australian National University Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment
College of Engineering and Computer Science Sydney, New South Wales Newcastle, New South Wales
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory eng.faculty@unsw.edu.au eng-builtenviro@newcastle.edu.au
student.services@cecs.anu.edu.au www.eng.unsw.edu.au www.eng.newcastle.edu.au
www.cecs.anu.edu.au

The University of Wollongong

Monash University
Faculty of Engineering
The University of Queensland Faculty of Engineering
Wollongong, New South Wales
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture Melbourne, Victoria
engineering@uow.edu.au
and Information Technology eng.info@eng.monash.edu.au
www.uow.edu.au/eng
Brisbane, Queensland www.eng.monash.edu.au
admin@eait.uq.edu.au
www.eait.uq.edu.au
Global partnerships enable our
universities to remain at the cutting
edge of research and innovation.
The Go8+ seeks to collaborate with
The University of Sydney like-minded university consortia
Faculty of Engineering around the world and facilitate
The University of Western Australia Sydney, New South Wales the participation of its member
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics engineering@eng.usyd.edu.au universities in leading centres for
Perth, Western Australia research and higher education.
www.eng.usyd.edu.au
reception@ecm.uwa.edu.au
www.ecm.uwa.edu.au

The Group of Eight Secretariat

The University of Adelaide
The University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering, Computer and
Melbourne School of Engineering Mathematical Sciences
Melbourne, Victoria Adelaide, South Australia
eng-info@unimelb.edu.au eng@adelaide.edu.au
www.eng.unimelb.edu.au www.adelaide.edu.au/ecms
PO Box 6229 O’Connor
ACT 2602 Australia
Tel: +61 2 6239 5488
Fax: +61 2 6239 5808
executive.director@go8.edu.au
www.go8.edu.au