Universities Australia (formerly the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee) is an organisation founded in Sydney in May 1920, which attempts to advance higher education through voluntary, cooperative and coordinated action.

[1] In September 2006, the AVCC announced an overhaul of the organization following a review by consultant David Phillips, Director of PhillipsKPA.

According to its website,[4] its aims are to Universities Australia has representatives, or nominated people, on some 67 external national and international bodies of importance to higher education.

[6] It specialises in the provision of management services for collaborative development projects for the universities in Australia.

It designs innovative business and contractual models to realise the outcomes required, capitalising on the opportunities initiated by collaborating universities.