Australian National University

Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) may be a public university in capital of Australia, capital of Australia Territory. situated within the residential area of Acton, the most field encompasses seven teaching and analysis faculties, additionally to many national institutes.

Founded in 1946, it's the sole university to possess been created by the Parliament of Australia. Originally a postgraduate analysis university, Anu commenced undergrad teaching in 1960 once it integrated the capital of Australia University faculty, that had been established in 1929 as a field of the University of Melbourne. Anu enrolls ten,052 undergrad and ten,840 postgraduate students and employs three,753 staff. The university's endowment stood at a$1.13 billion in 2012.

ANU is systematically hierarchic among the world's prime universities. Anu is hierarchic co-equal nineteenth within the world (first in Australia) with King's faculty London by the 2015/16 QS World University Rankings,  and forty fifth within the world (second in Australia) by the 2014/15 Times teaching World University Rankings. within the 2014 Times teaching world Employability University Ranking, associate degree annual ranking of university graduates' employability, Anu was hierarchic twentieth within the world (first in Australia). Anu is hierarchic 179th (6th best in Australia) within the 2015 Center for World University Rankings and 89th (first in Australia) within the 2015 urban center ranking. Anu ranks 151st (7th in Australia) within the URAP ranking. Anu is hierarchic initial within the four Palmes class within the Eduniversal ranking. Anu is positioned within the prime 100 percent in teaching, prime 100 percent in international outlook and prime 100 percent in analysis within the world in 2016.

ANU counts six Alfred Nobel laureates among its school and alumni. Students getting into Anu in 2013 had a median Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of ninety three, the equal-highest among Australian universities. Anu was named the world's seventh most international university during a 2014 study by Times teaching.

History

Post-war origins

Calls for the institution of a national university in Australia began as early as 1900. when the situation of the nation's capital, Canberra, determined in 1908, land was put aside for the university at the foot Black Mountain within the town styles by director Burley mythical creature. coming up with for the university was noncontinuous by war II however resumed with the creation of the Department of Post-War Reconstruction in 1942, ultimately resulting in the passage of the Australian National University Act one946 by the Parliament of Australia on 1 August 1946.

A group of eminent Australian students came from overseas to affix the university, together with Sir Florey (co-developer of healthful penicillin), Sir Mark Oliphant(a physicist World Health Organization worked on the Manhattan Project), Sir Keith Hancock the Chichele academic of Economic History at Oxford) and Sir Raymond Firth (a academic of social science at LSE). social scientist Sir Stephen A. Douglas Aaron Copland was appointed as ANU's initial Vice-Chancellor and former Prime Minister Stanley Bruce served because the initial Chancellor. Anu was originally organized into four centers—the analysis faculties of Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies and also the John Curtin college of Medical analysis.

The first resident's hall, University House, was opened in 1954 for school members and postgraduate students. Mount Stromlo Observatory, established by the central in 1924, became a part of Anu in 1957. the primary locations of the Anu Library, the Menzies and Chifley buildings, opened in 1963. The Australian biology college, situated in capital of Australia since 1927, was amalgamated by Anu in 1965.