Australian National University

The Australian National University  is a country wide studies university placed in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its principal campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and studies schools, in addition to several country wide academies and institutes.

Founded in 1946, it's far the best college to were created through the Parliament of Australia. At the start a postgraduate research university, ANU commenced undergraduate teaching in 1960 when it integrated the Canberra college college, which were established in 1929 as a campus of the college of Melbourne. ANU enrolls 10,052 undergraduate and 10,840 postgraduate students and employs three,753 staff. The college's endowment stood at $1.13 billion in 2012.

ANU is consistently ranked many of the global's top universities. ANU is ranked co-equal 19th in the international (first in Australia) with King's university London by way of the 2015/sixteen QS global college ratings, and 52nd in the global (second in Australia) through the 2015/16 times higher schooling. ANU was named the arena's twenty fifth (first in Australia) most international university in a 2016 look at by means of times better education. Within the 2015 times higher training worldwide Employability university ranking, an annual ranking of university graduates' employability, ANU turned into ranked 32nd inside the global (first in Australia). ANU is ranked 89th (first in Australia) within the 2015 CWTS Leiden rating. ANU is ranked first in the four Palmes class in the Ed universal ranking.

ANU counts six Nobel laureates among its faculty and alumni. The college has knowledgeable  high ministers, 30 modern-day Australian Ambassadors and greater than a dozen modern heads of presidency departments of Australia. College students getting into ANU in 2013 had a median Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of ninety three, the same-maximum among Australian universities.

Modern generation The Canberra faculty of song and the Canberra faculty of artwork were amalgamated with the aid of ANU in 1992. ANU set up its medical school in 2002, after acquiring federal authorities approval in 2000. On 18 January 2003, the Canberra bushfires largely destroyed the Mount Stromlo Observatory. ANU astronomers now conduct research from the Siding Spring Observatory, which contains 10 telescopes inclusive of the Anglo-Australian Telescope. In February 2013, financial entrepreneur and ANU graduate Graham Tuckwell made the biggest college donation in Australian history by giving $50 million to fund an undergraduate scholarship application at ANU. ANU is well known for its history of pupil activism and, in latest years, its fossil fuel divestment marketing campaign, that's one of the longest-strolling and most successful within the country. The selection of the ANU Council to divest from two fossil gas agencies in 2014 became criticised with the aid of ministers within the Abbott authorities, however defended through Vice Chancellor Ian young, who cited:

On divestment, it's miles clear we were within the proper and performed a certainly country wide and global leadership position.We seem to have played a major function in a movement which now seems unstoppable.

Academics

ANU is governed with the aid of a fifteen-member Council, whose individuals encompass the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor. Gareth Evans, a former overseas Minister of Australia, has been ANU Chancellor due to the fact 2010 and Brian Schmidt, an astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate, have become Vice-Chancellor on 1 January 2016. Ian Chubb, Vice-Chancellor from 2001 to 2011, is now the leader Scientist of Australia.

Undergraduate college students are represented by way of the Australian country wide college students' association (ANUSA) and postgraduates by way of the Postgraduate and research students' association (PARSA). The Australian country wide university Union manages catering and retail outlets and feature amenities on behalf of all college students.

In its maximum current disclosure on the stop of 2012,ANU recorded an endowment of A$1.Thirteen billion.

Campus

the principle campus of ANU extends across the Canberra suburb of Acton, which includes 358 acres (1.45 km2) of ordinarily parkland with college buildings landscaped within. ANU is kind of bisected through Sullivans Creek, part of the Murray–Darling basin, and is bordered with the aid of the native bushland of Black Mountain, Lake Burley Griffin, the suburb of Turner and the Canberra important commercial enterprise district. Many college websites are of historic importance courting from the established order of the country wide capital, with over forty buildings recognized by way of the Commonwealth background listing and several others on neighborhood lists.

With over 10,000 timber on its campus, ANU received an international Sustainable Campus community Award in 2009 and turned into ranked the 2d greenest university campus in Australia in 2011.

Four of Australia's five discovered societies are based totally at ANU—the Australian Academy of science, the Australian Academy of the humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of regulation. The Australian national Centre for the general public focus of technological know-how and the countrywide movie and Sound Archive are also located at ANU, at the same time as the country wide Museum of Australia and CSIRO are located next to the campus.

ANU occupies additional places such as Mount Stromlo Observatory on the outskirts of Canberra, Siding Spring Observatory close to Coonabarabran, a campus at Kioloa on theSouth Coast of recent South Wales and a research unit in Darwin.

Library

The library of ANU originated in 1948 with the appointment of the first librarian, Arthur McDonald. The library holds over 2.Five million bodily volumes dispensed across six branches—the Chifley, Menzies, Hancock, artwork & music, and law Libraries and the external Print Repository.

Residential halls and faculties

8 residential centers are affiliated with ANU—Bruce hall, Ursula hall, Burgmann college, John XXIII university, Toad corridor, Burton & Garran hall, Graduate residence and Fenner corridor. All are located on campus except Fenner corridor, that's positioned inside the close by suburb of Braddon. Students additionally live in the privately run devices adjacent the campus—Davey lodge, Kinloch motel, Warrumbul motel and Lena Karmel resort. In 2010, the non-residential Griffin corridor become installed for college students living off-campus. Another off-campus student accommodation was launched via UniGardens Pty, university Gardens positioned in Belconnen.