Edlocate offers you opportunities to study in The Very Best Australian Universities - The Go8 Universities

If you are keen to get a world class tertiary education in Australia and enter a career with international openings, you need to enrol in a Go8 University. They are in the same league as the top UK and USA based Universities - ranked within the top 200 Universities in the world.

If one wishes to do tertiary study overseas Australia offers one of the best options now with the unstable situations facing the UK, USA and Europe. Australia is an advanced country, with a stable political and social climate and a growing economy. The country gives a high priority to education with the Universities continuously being audited and courses upgraded to be in line with the advancements in the world.

The Go8 Universities are all research intense Universities. They thus attract the best and brightest students and researchers. These Universities focus on research as an asset for academic, scientific and/or commercial benefit. They receive 73% of Australian Competitive Grant (Category 1) funding and has the largest proportion of research fields rated at 4 or 5 (‘above’ or ‘well above’ world standard). The research strengths span the areas of the many sciences - Engineering and Environmental/ Biological and Agricultural/ Humanities, Mathematical, Information and Computing / Physical, Chemical and Earth / Social and Behavioural/ Medical and Health AND Law and Creative arts. Each year the Go8 spends some $6 Billion on research – more than $2 Billion of which is spent on Medical and Health Services research.

Each of the Go8 universities boast of a history of well over 50 years and some even 100+. They all have formal bilateral international agreements for broad academic col- laboration and student exchange programs with Universities and research organisations in the developed countries. These enable the high achieving students to complete a semester or two of their courses in such Universities thus helping students in Go8 Universities to develop the skills, knowledge and values to thrive and lead in a rapidly changing world and establish international network of fellow students and prospective employers.

The Go8 Universities also work closely with leading Australian and international business establishments based in Australia as feeder organisations of their young graduate employees. This enables students who complete studies well, to get very valuable paid work experience, easily during the minimum 2 years post study work visa granted by Australia to international students.

The Go8 Universities educate a total of 358,000 students – 23% of Australia’s undergraduate students and 26% of all students. This includes 85,000 onshore international students, with one in three of Australia’s international students choosing to study at a Go8 university. Go8 Universities educate more than 63% of Australia’s doctors and vets and 66% of Australia’s dentists; and provides over 50% Australia’s science graduates and more than 40% of engineering graduates. Student success and retention rates are above the Australian average, ensuring that a higher percentage of students from all backgrounds will graduate from the Go8. They are the leaders in post graduate education too. Go8 universities enroll one third of all post graduate students, and almost half of all students in higher degrees by research. Go8 universities award 53% of all doctorates in Australia.

The Go8 Universities offer excellent scholarships to high achieving students at undergraduate level so that they will in later years contribute to their research projects. They have unique approaches to undergraduate education, to nature even an average student to develop to a very high level on completion of the first degree. The graduates of the Go8 Universities thus are in demand the world-over for their abilities to understand, and apply vision and creativity to addressing complex contemporary challenges. All of the Go8 Universities have a deep commitment to undergraduate education with reinvigorated curriculum, so that their graduates will develop the skills, knowledge and values they need to thrive in the work force.

In world rankings Go8 Universities are consistently the highest ranked Australian Universities. All Go8 member Universities are ranked in the top 200 institutions worldwide in the Academic Ranking of World Universities including The Times Higher Education World Rankings* (THES) published by the UK. The University rankings by subject, rate all Go8 law schools in the top 100, with six in the top 50 and four in the top 20. All Go8 Universities have at least one field of engineering ranked in the top 100, and all are in the top 100 for medicine, psychology and education.

University of Melbourne - established in 1853, enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing it as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive University, and one of the world’s top 50 at # 33*

The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra was established in 1946. Ranked second in Australia and 52nd* in the world, is a research-intensive university of global standing specialising in discovery and public policy.

University of Sydney is ranked equal 56th * in the world and 3rd in Australia with Arts and Humanities achieving a rank of equal 14th globally.

University of Queensland ( UQ) is ranked 60th * in the world and 4th in Australia. The UQ Graduate School offers significant support to research higher degree ( RHD) students through a broad range of scholarships and research travel awards.

University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney - Established in the year 1949, UNSW is ranked 82nd * in the world and 6th in Australia.

University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth was established in 1911 and is ranked 109th * in the world and 7th in Australia

University of Adelaide - Established in 1874, the University of Adelaide is Australia’s third oldest university and is ranked 149th*.

These are the differences between an Australian Go8 university and another university. Edlocate offers students the ability to gain entry to 7 of the eight Go8 universities directly and to the 8th - Monash - through Monash University Malaysia. These universities for the last 16+ years have changed the lives of many hundreds of Sri Lankan students who enrolled in them having guided by Edlocate, for better - a record Edlocate is very proud of.

If you would like to find out more about the Go 8 Universities in Australia and the extensive range of coursework, research programs on offer including admission process and scholarship opportunities, visit Australian University Day & Scholarship Information Session on 20th August 2016 at BMICH Cinema Lounge from 2.00pm- 7.00 pm. For registrations contact 0771-770361.