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Overview of Australian Universities

University of Sydney

Up to 2019, there are 43 universities in Australia, including 39 state universities, 1 national university, two international universities and one private university. Australian universities are able to issue bachelor, master and PhD degrees whose qualifications are widely recognized by countries around the world including China.

Higher education in Australia began in the 1950s, both the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne followed the models of University of Oxford and Cambridge University. By 1911, in order to meet the needs of the country's rapid development, the six major cities had already owned their own universities.

Australian universities are committed to nurturing future leaders, encouraging innovation, creativity and independent thinking, and also train graduates from the international workplace. A large number of Australian alumni and researchers have made breakthroughs in different fields, such as flight recorder (black box), wireless networks (Wi-Fi), bionic ears, cervical cancer vaccines, vitro fertilization techniques, the discovery of penicillin, and so on, all of which reflect Australian universities world-leading innovation. Over the past century, Australian education has trained 11 Nobel laureates in the fields of medicine, science and literature.

Most of Australian universities have a two-semester system, an academic year starts from March and ends in November, the first semester is from early March to early June, and the second semester is from July to early November. Universities usually start in early March, and end in November. An academic year is usually divided into 2 or 3 semesters depends on universities. Recently, more and more universities start to accept freshmen in July, but it varies according to courses.

Degree setting of Australian higher education:

Top Universities in the World

Although rankings of the world university can be used as an indicator to measure the strength universities, in fact, the index evaluation system adopted by different types of rankings has different depths and breadths, therefore, the same university performs differently in different rankings, so please avoid overdependence.

全球四大排名机构

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Being the only international ranking to have received International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) approval, the QS ranking is viewed as one of the three most-widely read university rankings in the world.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Times Higher Education (THE) magazine, it is often considered as one of the most widely observed university rankings together with Academic Ranking of World Universities and QS World University Rankings.
U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking is an annual publication of university rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The popularity of U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges rankings is reflected in its 2014 release, which brought 2.6 million unique visitors and 18.9 million page views to usnews.com in one day.
Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as Shanghai Ranking, is an annual publication of university rankings by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy which is an independent organization focusing on higher education. ARWU is regarded as one of the three most influential and widely observed university rankings.

Top 4 College Alliances

Sandstone Universities
The sandstone universities are an informally defined group comprising Australia's oldest tertiary education institutions, all of them have buildings constructed primarily of sandstone.

Members:

  • University of Tasmania
  • University of Adelaide
  • University of Western Australia
  • University of Queensland
  • University of Sydney
  • University of Melbourne
  • Association of Pacific Rim Universities
    Founded in 1997, The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) is a consortium of 50 leading research universities in 17 economies of the Pacific Rim.

    Members:

  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Sydney
  • University of Melbourne
  • Australian National University
  • Pacific Asian Consortium for International Business Education and Research
    The Pacific Asian Consortium for International Business Education and Research (PACIBER) was established in Hawaii in 1988. It holds an annual conference since 2001, and there are currently 27 universities.

    Members:

  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Sydney
  • University of Melbourne
  • Rankings of Australian Universities

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