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About ANU
The Australian National University is unique among
its contemporaries as the only Australian university established by an
Act of Federal Parliament, in 1946. It is also one of Australia’s most
research-intensive universities, with a high ratio of academic staff to
students.
The University campus has over 200 buildings and occupies 145 hectares adjacent to the city centre of Canberra.
The University also has smaller campuses:
- Mt Stromlo Observatory (west of Canberra)
- Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, western NSW)
- North Australia Research Unit (Darwin, Northern Territory)
- Kioloa (coastal campus near Bawley Point, on the NSW South Coast).
Education@ANU
ANU was established with a formidable responsibility to advance the cause of learning and research in Australia and take a rightful place among the great universities of the world.
The primary educational objective of ANU is to become the university of choice for talented students locally, nationally and internationally by offering a unique range of research-led degree programs.
Our seven Colleges, each a combination of Research Schools and Faculties, position us where few others can go. Where others derive their research from their teaching, ANU builds its teach on the base of its research. The benefits of this research-led education set our students apart.
Facts & Figures
- An independent quality review of
the University found it ranked among the world’s best research
universities, with 77 per cent of external assessors ranking ANU as one
of the top 50 universities in their field in the world — including 44
per cent who rated ANU in the world’s top 25 universities.
- The Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education’s Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked ANU ahead of every other university in the Southern Hemisphere.
- ISIHighlyCited, a ranking of researchers who have made fundamental
contributions to their disciplines in the last 20 years, identifies 21
ANU researchers among the 50 Australians at the top of their field.
- ANU has more Federation Fellows – lucrative fellowships awarded by the
Australian Research Council – than any other Australian university.
- ANU has more members of the Royal Society - the world’s oldest
scientific academy - on staff than any other Australian university.
- The University has 14,365 students, including 3,379 international students from 106 countries.
- The youngest ANU student is 16, while the oldest is 86.
- There are more than two million volumes – and one of the largest
collections on the Asia-Pacific outside of the region – in the
University’s libraries.
- A 'green' campus, ANU has more than 10,000 trees within its grounds. In
2003 the University was awarded the Silver Greenhouse Challenge Award
at the annual Australian Engineering Excellence Awards, placing it
second of 800 signatories.
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