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This is a list of universities and other higher education institutions in Australia.
The Commonwealth Higher Education Support Act 2003 sets out three groups of higher education providers. Students at all three types of institutions are eligible for FEE-HELP, an income contingent loan to cover charges and fees.
Universities
National
- Australian Catholic University ACU, NSW (both in Sydney): North Sydney (MacKillop), Strathfield (Mount St. Mary); Qld: Brisbane (McAuley); ACT: Canberra (Signadou); Vic: Ballarat (Aquinas); Melbourne (St Patrick's).
- University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Broome and Sydney.
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
- Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Wagga Wagga, Albury, Dubbo, Orange, Canberra
- Macquarie University, Sydney
- University of New England, Armidale
- University of New South Wales, Sydney, Canberra
- University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Ourimbah, Port Macquarie
- Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Tweed Heads
- University of Sydney
- University of Technology, Sydney
- University of Western Sydney
- University of Wollongong
Victoria
- University of Ballarat, Ballarat
- Deakin University, Geelong, Melbourne, Warrnambool
- La Trobe University, Melbourne, Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Beachworth, Shepparton, Mildura, Mt Buller
- Melbourne University Private. To be merged with the University of Melbourne by the end of 2005.
- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Shepparton
- Monash University, Melbourne, Churchill (Gippsland), Peninsula (Frankston)
- RMIT University (formerly Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
- Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
- Victoria University, Melbourne
Queensland
- Bond University,Gold Coast
- Central Queensland University, Rockhampton
- Griffith University, Brisbane and Gold Coast
- James Cook University, Townsville
- University of Queensland, Brisbane
- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
- University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast
Western Australia
- Curtin University of Technology, Perth and Sydney (established on 20 June 2005)
- Edith Cowan University, Perth and Bunbury
- Murdoch University, Perth
- University of Western Australia, Perth and Albany
- University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle and Broome
South Australia
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide and Roseworthy
- Flinders University, Adelaide
- University of South Australia, Adelaide and Whyalla
Tasmania
Northern Territory
- Charles Darwin University, Darwin (formerly Northern Territory University)
Other self-accrediting higher education institutions
These institutions are for nearly all practical purposes, universities. However, they are deemed not to be because their academic focus is too narrow.
- Australian College of Natural Medicine, Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne
- Australian Maritime College, Launceston
- Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney
- Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Northern Territory: Alice Springs, Batchelor, Darwin, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy, Katherine, Yarrabah and Western Australia: Kununurra
- Melbourne College of Divinity, Melbourne (associated with the University of Melbourne)
State and territory accredited higher education institutions
Each qualification these institutions offer must first be approved by the relevant state or territory authority. For the purposes of maintainability, the list below only aims to include institutions that create their own degree, masters or doctorate courses - not those that deliver courses created by others, or create only lesser courses. Links to full lists of Higher Education course originators can be found at the bottom of this section.
Institutions that only deliver higher education courses created by another institution can be found via the parent institution listed.
Government
Specialist
- Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (associated with the University of Melbourne)
- National Art School, Sydney
- National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney
General
- Box Hill Institute, Melbourne
- Canberra Institute of Technology, Canberra
- Gordon Institute of TAFE, Geelong
- Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Melbourne
- Monash College, Melbourne (associated with Monash University)
- Northern Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
- TAFE South Australia
Christian
National
- Australian College of Theology and affiliates, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
- ICI College completely through correspondence via Tasmania
- Institute for the Nations - Australia, Youth With A Mission affiliate registered in ACT
- Tabor College, Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney
New South Wales
- Lois Reid College of Counselling Studies, Tamworth
- Avondale College, Cooranbong (New South Wales)
- College of Christian Higher Education, Sydney
- Sydney College of Divinity, Sydney
- Wesley Institute for Ministry and the Arts, Sydney
South Australia
- Adelaide College of Divinity (associated with Flinders University)
- Adelaide College of Ministries
- Australian Lutheran College, Adelaide
Tasmania
Queensland
- Brisbane College of Theology
- Christian Heritage College, Brisbane
- Malyon College, Brisbane
- Nazerene Theological College, Brisbane
Victoria
- Catholic Theological College, Melbourne
- Harvest Bible College, Melbourne
- John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne
- Kingsley College, Melbourne
Western Australia
Other private
Specialist
- Adelaide Central School of Art
- Australian College of Applied Psychology, Sydney and Brisbane
- Australian College of Physical Education, Sydney
- Australian Guild of Music Education, Melbourne
- Australian Institute of Public Safety, Melbourne
- Australian Institute of Music, Sydney
- Australian International Hotel School, Canberra
- Billy Blue School of Graphic Arts, Sydney
- International College of Hotel Management, Adelaide
- Invisage, Brisbane
- Jansen Newman Institute, Sydney
- Journalism Education & Training, Brisbane, Queensland
- Kaylene Kranz and Associates, Adelaide
- Kollel Beth Hatalmud Yehuda Fishman Institute, Melbourne
- KvB Institute of Technology, Sydney
- Le Cordon Bleu Australia, Adelaide
- Marcus Oldham College, Geelong
- National Institute of Health Sciences, Canberra
- Nature Care College, Sydney
- Oceania Polytechnic Institute of Education, Melbourne
- QANTM, Brisbane
- SAE Institute, Sydney, Byron Bay, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth
- Southern School of Natural Therapies, Melbourne
- Sydney Graphics College
- William Blue International Hotel Management School, Sydney
General
- Alexander Institute of Technology, Perth
- Gibaran Business School (incorporating Australian Institute of Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Institute Australia, and Tourism Institute Australia), Adelaide
- Holmes Institute, Melbourne
- ILM Australia, None. Although registered in Australia, it only delivers courses outside the country.
- Institute of Business and Technology, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Adelaide
- Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, via an affiliate in Melbourne
Full listings
Institutions operating in the external territories are auspiced by the Commonwealth Deparment of Education, Science and Training. However, there are none at this time (2005).
Groupings of universities
- Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee - the peak Higher Education institution group.
- Group of Eight - the supposedly most prestigious universities.
- IRU Australia - universities that aim to have the prestige of the Group of Eight.
- Australian Technology Network - technically minded universities that promote themselves as offering more practical courses than the prestigious and trying-to-be-prestigious ones. Two of the Group of Eight were once "technical universities".
- Universitas 21 - a worldwide group of universities founded by the University of Melbourne. In an Australian context, it is like the Group of Eight, but more elite.
- Open Universities Australia - a group of universities that offer distance education courses as part of a common platform.
See also
- List of colleges and universities
- List of colleges and universities by country
- List of schools in Australia
- University admission
- Education in Australia
- Technical and Further Education (TAFE)
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