1993 Quality Audit of Australian Universities

Sources: Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education of the Australian Government, as reported in Campus Review, Vol. 4, No. 9, March 10-16, 1994, page one, and Commonwealth Universities Yearbook 1994, Volume One, (Association of Commonwealth Universities, Avon, 1994).

Group One

• excellent outcomes in research, teaching and learning, and community services; and
• well developed planning processes which support the quality assurance processes;
• evidence of international as well as national referencing.

The Australian National University (1946, 1929)
The University of Adelaide (1874)
The University of Melbourne (1853)
The University of New South Wales (1949)
The University of Queensland (1909, 1897)
The University of Western Australia (1911)

Group Two

• excellent outcomes in research, teaching and learning, and community services but systematic quality assurance processes less well developed; or
• well developed approach to quality assurance processes with more limited but highly creditable outcomes; and
• evidence of international as well as national referencing.

Monash University (1958, 1881)
The University of Sydney (1850)
University of Wollongong (1975, 1961)

Group Three

• highly creditable outcomes in teaching and learning, research, and community service; and
• sound systematic approach to quality assurances is developing in teaching and learning, research, and community service.

The Flinders University of South Australia (1966)
Griffith University (1971, 1881)
La Trobe University (1964, 1883)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1992, 1887)
University of Tasmania (1890, 1888)

Group Four

• creditable outcomes in teaching and learning, research, and community service; and
• a sound approach to quality assurance processes is developing in teaching and learning, research, and community service.

Deakin University (1974, 1887)
Macquarie University (1964)
Queensland University of Technology (1988, 1914)
University of Technology, Sydney (1988, 1964)

Group Five

• sound outcomes in focused areas but less well developed processes; or
• improving outcomes supported by generally sound processes.

Charles Sturt University (1989, 1947)
Curtin University of Technology (1987, 1902)
James Cook University of North Queensland (1970, 1961)
Murdoch University (1973)
Southern Cross University (1994)
University of Canberra (1990, 1967)
Central Queensland University (1967, 1922)
The University of New England (1953, 1928)
The University of Newcastle (1965, 1949)
University of South Australia (1991, 1889)

Group Six

• improving outcomes with the introduction of systematic processes underway.

Australian Catholic University (1991, 1908)
University of Ballarat (1990, 1870)
Edith Cowan University (1991, 1902)
Northern Territory University (1988, 1973)
Swinburne University of Technology (1992, 1908)
University of Southern Queensland (1972, 1967)
University of Western Sydney (1989, 1891)
Victoria University of Technology (1990, 1915)