Abbreviations for institutions

This list contains the abbreviations for Australian universities maintained by Universities Australia. It also includes the abbreviations maintained by the Association of Commonweath Universities (ACU) for the top 100 international universities (excluding those in Australia) as ranked by the Times Higher Education Supplement (October 2008).

Please see the University of Sydney's Editorial Style Guide for more information on university abbreviations: www.usyd.edu.au/dpm/style_guides/university/degrees_qualifications

Australian universities

University	Abbreviation
Australian Catholic	ACU National
Australian National University	ANU
Bond University	Bond
Central Queensaland University	CQU
Charles Darwin University	CDU
Carles Sturt University	CSU
Curtin University of Technology	Curtin
Deakin University	Deakin
Edith Cowan University	ECU
Flinders University	Flinders
Griffith University	Griffith
James Cook Univeristy	JCU
La Trobe University	La Trobe
Macquarie University	Macquarie
Monash University	Monash
Murdoch University	Murdoch
Queensland University of Technology	QUT
RMIT	RMIT
Southern Cross University	SCU
Swinburne University of Technology	Swinburne
University of Adelaide	Adelaide
University of Ballarat	UB
University of Canberra	UC
University of Melbourne	Melbourne
University of New England	UNE
University of New South Wales	UNSW
University of Newcastle	UoN
University of Notre Dame Australia	UNDA
University of Queensland	UQ
University of South Australia	UniSA
University of Southern Queensland	USQ
University of Sydney	Sydney
University of Tasmania	UTas
University of Technology Sydney	UTS
University of the Sunshine Coast	USC
University of Western Australia	UWA
University of Western Sydney	UWS
University of Wollongong	UOW
Victoria University	VU

Top 100 universities (excluding Australia)

University	Country	Abbreviation
Boston University	USA	Boston
Brown University	USA	Brown
California University of Technology	USA	CalTech
Carnegie Mellon University	USA	Carnegie-Mellon
Case Western Reserve University	USA	Case Reserve
Chinese University of Hong Kong	China	Chinese HK
Columbia University	USA	Col
Cornell University	USA	Cornell
Dartmouth College	USA	Dartmouth
Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	Delft
Duke University	USA	Duke
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris	France	Ec Normale Sup, Paris
Ecole Polytechnique	France	Ecole Poly (Palaiseau)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Switzerland	InstTechnol, Lausanne
Emory University	USA	Emory
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	ETH Zurich
Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Georgia
Harvard University	USA	Harvard
Hebrew University of Jerusalum	Israel	Jerusalum
Heidelberg University	Germany	Heidel
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	China	HKUST
Imperial College London	UK	ImpLond
Johns Hopkins University	USA	JohnsH
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	Leuven
King's College London	UK	Lond
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea	Korea AIST
Kyoto University	Japan	Kyoto
Leiden University	Netherlands	Ley
London School of Economics	UK	Lond
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich	Germany	Munich
Lund University	Sweden	Lund
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	MIT
McGill	Canada	McG
Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Natech
National University of Singapore	Singapore	NU Singapore
New York University	USA	NY
Northwestern University	USA	Northwestern
Osaka University	Japan	Osaka
Peking University	China	Peking
Princeton University	USA	Prin
Purdue University	USA	Purdue
Rice University	USA	Rice
Seoul National Universty	South Korea	Seoul
Stanford University	USA	Stan
Technical University of Munich	Germany	TH Munich
Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	Tokyo IT
Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	Trinity(Dublin)
Tsinghua University	China	Tsinghua
Universite de Montreal	Canada	Montr
University College London	UK	Lond
University of Aarhus	Denmark	Asrhus
University of Alberta	Canada	Alta
University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amst
University of Auckland	New Zealand	Auck
University of Birminghan	UK	Brim
University of Bristol	UK	Brist
University of British Columbia	Canada	BrCol
University of California, Berkeley	USA	Calif
University of California, Davis	USA	Davis
University of California, Los Angeles	USA	UCLA
University of California, San Diego	USA	San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara	USA	Santa Barbara
University of Cambridge	USA	Camb
University of Chicago	USA	Chic
University of Copenhagen	Denmark	Copenhagen
University of Edinburgh	UK	Edin
University of Geneva	Switzerland	Geneva
University of Glasgow	UK	Glas
University of Helsinki	Finland	Helsinki
University of Hong Kong	China	HK
University of Illinois	USA	Ill
University of Manchester	UK	Manc
University of Michigan	USA	Mich
University of Minnesota	USA	Minn
University of Nottingham	UK	Nott
University of Oxford	UK	Oxf
University of Pennsylvania	USA	Penn
University of Pittsburgh	USA	Pitt
University of Sheffield	UK	Shef
University of Southampton	UK	S'ton
University of St Andrews	UK	StAnd
University of Austin at Texas	USA	AustinColl
University of Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo
University of Toronto	Canada	Tor
University of Virginia	USA	Virginia
University of Warwick	UK	Warw
University of Washington	USA	Wash
University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	Wis
University of York	UK	York(UK)
Uppsala University	Sweden	Uppsala
Utrecht University	Netherlands	Utrecht
Washinton University in St Louis	USA	Wash(Mo)
Yale University	USA	Yale