The University of Melbourne is a public university that was established in 1853. The university has seven campuses spread throughout Melbourne and other parts of Victoria, Australia. The Parkville campus is the main campus, and undergraduate and graduate students can live in one of several nearby residential colleges. Other campuses include Southbank, Burnley, Creswick, Dookie, Shepparton, and Werribee. Tuition costs vary by subject at the University of Melbourne and are higher for international students. Dentistry, veterinary science, and medicine are among the more expensive programs at the university.

The University of Melbourne, founded by the colony of Victoria, is one of Australia's six sandstone universities and a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21, Washington University's McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Since 1872, various residential colleges have been affiliated with the university, providing housing for students and faculty as well as academic, athletic, and cultural programs. There are ten colleges on the main campus and in the surrounding suburbs.

Today, over 8900 academic and professional staff members support a student body of over 52,000 people. More than 13,000 international students from more than 130 countries make up the student body. In the 2020-2021 iteration of Times Higher Education's annual World University Rankings, Melbourne was ranked 31st globally. The University of Melbourne was ranked 41st in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2021. SCImago Institutions Rankings placed it 32nd among universities worldwide in 2020.

Website: https://www.unimelb.edu.au

The University of Sydney is a public research university in Sydney, Australia. It was established in 1850 as Australia's first university and is now regarded as one of the world's top universities. The university is one of six sandstone universities in Australia. The university is made up of eight academic faculties and university schools that offer bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.

For the past 172 years, University of Sydney alumni have made significant contributions to both Australia and the world. Seven Prime Ministers of the university, three Chief Justices of the High Court, four Federal Opposition Leaders, two Governors-General, nine Federal Attorneys-General, 13 Premiers of New South Wales, including incumbent Premier Dominic Perrottet, and 24 Justices of the High Court—more than any other law school in Australia—are notable Sydney alumni. In addition, the faculty has produced 24 Rhodes Scholars and several Gates Scholars. On a global scale, Sydney Law School alumni include the third President of the United Nations General Assembly and the President of the International Court of Justice.

Website: https://www.sydney.edu.au

The University of Queensland in Australia is a public university that was founded in 1909. It is situated in and around Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, the state capital. The university has three main campuses: St Lucia, where the majority of students study; Gatton, the university's hub for agriculture and veterinary science; and Herston, which houses the school's clinical health facilities. Other University of Queensland facilities, such as marine research stations, teaching hospitals, and an underground mine, can be found throughout the state. Tuition varies by subject and is more expensive for international students. Both St. Lucia and Gatton campuses have university student housing.

The University of Queensland has a number of agreements in place with many of its international peers, including Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of British Columbia, Imperial College London, University College London, University of Edinburgh, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich, Technical University of Munich, University of Zürich, University of Auckland, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Peking University, University of Hong Kong, University of Tokyo, National Taiwan University and Seoul National University.

Website: https://www.uq.edu.au

Monash University is a public university that was founded in 1958. It is named after Sir John Monash, an Australian military leader and engineer, and is located in the state of Victoria in southeastern Australia. The Clayton campus, the largest of the university's five Australian locations, is located about 12 miles southeast of Melbourne, Victoria's capital city. Monash University also has a Malaysian branch campus, a graduate school in China run in collaboration with Southeast University, and several other affiliated international sites.

The Sunway campus's faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Medicine and Health Sciences, Pharmacy, and Science offer a variety of undergraduate degrees. Monash University announced in August 2013 that it had formed a partnership that would allow its South African presence to expand and improve its educational offerings. The collaboration is with the Laureate International Universities. The Southeast University-Monash University Joint Graduate School is the first Australian university to be granted a license to operate in China, and only the third foreign university. The school offers master's degrees and PhDs in science and engineering, with the first cohort of 500 students expected to grow to 2000 in the coming years.

Website: https://www.monash.edu

The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is an Australian public research university located in Sydney. It is a founding member of the Group of Eight, an alliance of Australian research-intensive universities. UNSW is a research university that was founded in 1949 and is ranked 44th in the world in the 2021 QS World University Rankings and 67th in the world in the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It is a member of the global network of research universities known as Universitas 21. It has international exchange and research agreements with over 200 universities worldwide.

UNSW is ranked first in Australia for Law, Accounting, and Finance, and first in the world for Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology. UNSW is also one of the leading Australian universities in Medicine, with its Medical School students having the highest median ATAR (Australian university entrance examination results) of any Australian undergraduate medical school.

Website: https://www.unsw.edu.au

In 1946, the Australian National University was established. The main Acton Campus of the public institution is located in Canberra, Australia's capital city. Mount Stromlo Observatory and Siding Spring Observatory, both affiliated with the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, are two other university locations. Tuition varies by subject and is typically higher for international students. Undergraduate and graduate students can live on campus; in recent years, more than 20% of the university's student body lived on campus.

The Australian National University is a member of the Group of Eight, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the International Alliance of Research Universities, the UNESCO Chairs, the U7 Alliance, the Winter Institute, and the Global Scholars Program. The RG Menzies Scholarship to Harvard University is given to at least one talented Australian who has been admitted to a Harvard graduate school each year. The only two Australian partner universities of Yale University's Fox Fellowship program are ANU and the University of Melbourne. ANU has exchange agreements with Yale University, Brown University, MIT, and Oxford University, as well as research agreements with Harvard University.

Website: https://www.anu.edu.au

Adelaide University is a public research university in Adelaide, South Australia. It is Australia's third-oldest university, having been founded in 1874. The main campus of the university is on North Terrace in Adelaide's city center, next to the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian Museum, and the State Library of South Australia.

The university has had a significant impact on South Australian public life, having educated many of the state's leading businesspeople, lawyers, medical professionals, and politicians. Many notable achievements and discoveries have been associated with the university, including the discovery and development of penicillin, the development of space exploration, sunscreen, the military tank, Wi-Fi, polymer banknotes and X-ray crystallography, and the study of viticulture and enology.

The University of Adelaide has taken advantage of commercialization opportunities for its research. The university has the most commercial research contracts of any Australian university. It conducts extensive contract research and collaborates with local and international businesses, as well as federal, state, and local governments.

Website: https://www.adelaide.edu.au

The University of Western Australia (UWA) is an Australian public research university located in the state of Western Australia. The main campus of the university is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilities located throughout the state. The University of Western Australia was established in 1911 by an act of the Western Australian Parliament and began teaching students two years later. It is Australia's sixth-oldest University and served as the sole university in Western Australia until the establishment of Murdoch University in 1973. Because of its age and reputation, UWA is considered one of the "sandstone universities", an informal designation is given to each state's oldest university.

The majority of UWA students are school leavers from Western Australia, primarily from the Perth metropolitan area. Mature-age students make up a smaller proportion of the student body. In recent years, the proportion of full-fee-paying foreign students, primarily from South East Asia, has increased as a percentage of the student population. The university had 4,373 international students enrolled in 2020, out of a total student body of 18,717.

Website: https://www.uwa.edu.au

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is an Australian public research university. Although its origins are said to date back to the 1870s, the university in its current form was established in 1988. The university is regarded as one of the world's leading young universities (under 50 years old), with the 2021 QS World University Rankings Young Universities placing it first in Australia and eleventh in the world.

In 2020, the university had an enrolment of 46,328 students. 33,816 are undergraduate students, 10,223 postgraduate students and 2,289 doctoral students. Of all students, 69.9% are Australian citizens or permanent residents and 30.1% are international students. UTS is a member of the Australian Technology Network, the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. UTS is a member of the Australian Technology Network, the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Website: https://www.uts.edu.au

Curtin University, formerly the Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is a public research university in Bentley, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, and is Western Australia's largest university, with 57,784 students in 2019.

Curtin was granted university status in 1986 after legislation was passed by the Western Australian Parliament. Since then, the university's presence has grown to include campuses in Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai, and Mauritius, as well as affiliations with 90 exchange universities in 20 countries. The university has five main faculties and more than 95 specialist centers. From 2005 to 2016, it had a campus in Sydney.

Curtin University belongs to the Australian Technology Network. Curtin University conducts research in a variety of academic and practical areas. As of 2020, Curtin University is the only Western Australian university whose students have received the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering's Postgraduate Student Gold Medal.

Website: https://www.curtin.edu.au