List of higher education associations and alliances
Many institutions of higher education often combine their resources so that they can share information and resources, coordinate research agendas, and afford each other mutual support.
Legal
Medical
Research-based associations
- Association of American Universities - Group of leading American and Canadian research universities
- Europaeum
- League of European Research Universities
- Universities Research Association – A group of research-based universities primarily from the United States but also internationally
- Russell Group – A group of research-based universities in the United Kingdom
- Group of Eight (Australian universities) - A group of leading Australian tertiary institutions intensive in research and comprehensive in general and professional education
- U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities - A group of 15 Canadian public research universities
- International Alliance of Research Universities
- International Research Universities Network
- IDEA League (a strategic alliance of five of Europe's leading technical research universities)
Geographic
Africa
Canada
Colombia
- Colombia - Challenge Your Knowledge -CCYK-
Europe
- European University Association
- EAIE
- EURODOC
- Coimbra Group
- Europaeum
- IDEA League
- LAOTSE
- League of European Research Universities
- Utrecht Network
Mexico
- AMPEI (AMPEI)
Pacific Rim
United States
- Association of American Colleges and Universities
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities
- Great Cities' Universities
- Association of Independent Technological Universities
Geographically Non-Specific
- Association of Commonwealth Universities
- Worldwide Universities Network
- Academic Cooperation Association (ACA)
- International Association of Universities (IAU)
- Universitas 21
Language-based
Religious
- Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities - An organization made up of Jesuit institutions of higher education in the United States