ANU

The Australian National University is the country’s top-ranked university, uniquely founded by an Act of Federal Parliament in 1946. It is also ranked no.1 in the southern hemisphere, according to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  

The ANU is a member of the Group of Eight (Go8) coalition of Australia’s leading universities, and a founding member of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), an alliance of ten of the world’s leading research universities.

The ANU’s expertise in research and training spans a wide range of sectors from science, engineering and medicine to law, social sciences, the arts and humanities. The university has a particularly strong international collaboration record, with one quarter of its 6000 annual publications co-authored with international researchers. The university is involved in a number of high-profile collaborative projects, including leading Australian participation in the Giant Magellan Telescope Project (GMT), as well as hosting the China-Australia centre for Phenomics Research. The ANU Centre for European Studies coordinates research specific to government, trade, regulation and business relations among the EU, Australia and the Asia and Pacific regions. The ANU is one of the world leaders in the study of Pacific languages, societies, cultures, environments and governance; the university also supports a rapidly developing portfolio of outreach programs in the region.

http://www.anu.edu.au/

Figures:

• 16715 students (26% students at ANU came from overseas)
• more than 200 buildings on 145 hectares for the campus of Canberra
• ANU staff won $100 million in research grants and consultancies