What are the eight most famous schools in Australia? Let's take a look at the list of Australian universities and the latest world rankings in 2020.

Australia has a very high level of education around the world, with a total of 43 universities in six states and two major cities, including 39 state universities, 1 national university and 2 private universities.

The QS World University ranking is an annual ranking of universities published by Quacquarelli Symonds in the UK, which covers the world`s synthesis and disciplines, and is widely recognized as one of the most authoritative university rankings. The university rankings we usually see online are basically based on QS rankings.

The so-called "top eight Australian schools", known as alliance (Group of Eight, the top eight Australian universities, are alliance of the top eight universities in QS, namely, the University of Australia, the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Adelaide University, Queensland University and the University of Western Australia, which are the top eight universities in Australia, including the University of Australia, the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, the University of Monash, the University of Adelaide, the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia.

According to the latest QS World University rankings for 2019-2020, the top eight universities are the 29th Australian National University in the world, followed by the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland and the University of Monash, with the exception of the University of Adelaide, which ranks 106th.

The school emblem of the eighth National Congress

QS World ranking of Australian Universities 2019-2020 

World ranking	English school name	Chinese school name	location
29	Australian National University	The Australian National University	Capital territory
38	University of Melbourne	University of Melbourne	[地名][澳大利亚] Victoria, State of
42	University of Sydney	University of Sydney	NSW(New South Wales)
43	University of New South Wales	University of New South Wales	NSW(New South Wales)
47	The University of Queensland	The University of Queensland	Queensland 缩写为 Queensl
58	Monash University	Monash University	[地名][澳大利亚] Victoria, State of
86	University of Western Australia	University of Western Australia	[地名][澳大利亚] Western Australia, State of
106	University of Adelaide	University of Adelaide	[地名][澳大利亚] South Australia, State of
140	University of Technology, Sydney	University of Technology, Sydney	NSW(New South Wales)
207	The University of Newcastle	Newcastle University	NSW(New South Wales)
212	University of Wollongong	University of Wollongong 缩写为 U of W
224	Queensland University of Technology	Queensland University of Science and Technology	Queensland 缩写为 Queensl
230	Curtin University	Curtin University	[地名][澳大利亚] Western Australia, State of
237	Macquarie University	McCorry University	NSW(New South Wales)
238	RMIT University	Royal Melbourne University of Technology.	[地名][澳大利亚] Victoria, State of
271	Deakin University	Deacon University	[地名][澳大利亚] Victoria, State of
274	University of South Australia	University of South Australia	[地名][澳大利亚] South Australia, State of
291	University of Tasmania	University of Tasmania 缩写为 U of T	Tasmania
320	Griffith University	Griffith University	Queensland 缩写为 Queensl
367	James Cook University	James Cook University	Queensland 缩写为 Queensl
383	Swinburne University of Technology	Swinburne University of Technology	[地名][澳大利亚] Victoria, State of
400	La trobe University	Lezobo University	[地名][澳大利亚] Victoria, State of
424	Flinders University	Flinders University	[地名][澳大利亚] South Australia, State of
442	Bond University	University of Bond (private)	Queensland 缩写为 Queensl
468	Western Sydney University	University of Western Sydney	[地名][澳大利亚] Western Australia, State of
484	University of Canberra	University of Canberra	Capital territory
651-700	Charles Darwin University	Charles Darwin University	Northern Territory
601-650	Central Queensland University	Central Queensland University.	Queensland 缩写为 Queensl
751-800	Southern Cross University	Southern Cross University	NSW(New South Wales)
751-800	University of Southern Queensland	University of Southern Queensland	Queensland 缩写为 Queensl
801-1000	University of New England	New England University	NSW(New South Wales)
	University of the Sunshine Coast	University of the Sunshine Coast	Queensland 缩写为 Queensl
	Victoria University	Victoria University	[地名][澳大利亚] Victoria, State of
	Federation University Australia	Federal University of Australia	[地名][澳大利亚] Victoria, State of
	Edith Cowan University	Edie Scolvin University	[地名][澳大利亚] Western Australia, State of
	Murdoch University	Murdoch University	[地名][澳大利亚] Western Australia, State of
	University of Notre Dame Australia	Virgin Mary University, Australia (private)	[地名][澳大利亚] Western Australia, State of
	Australian Defence Force Academy	Australian Defense Academy	Capital territory
	Australian Catholic University	Catholic University of Australia	Distributed in many states

In addition to the QS ranking, the Times higher Education World University ranking (THE), the U.S. News ranking, and the World University academic ranking (ARWU) are the other three most authoritative university rankings in the time frame. The focus of the different rankings is different, and the ranking of each university is also somewhat different. For more details, please click to visit the Australian University World ranking. Comprehensive reference to the comprehensive performance of Australian universities in the four lists.