Australian National University (ANU)

The Australian National University (ANU) is a state fund college in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Situated in the advancement of Acton, the principle college grounds join seven instruction and investigation universities, in amassing to various national foundations.

Secured in 1946, it is the only college to have been produced by the legislature of Australia. originally a post grad study college, ANU introduced researcher instruction in 1960 when it iron the Canberra University College, which have been routine in 1929 as a foundation of the University of Melbourne. ANU records 10,052 undergrad and 10,840 postgraduate understudies and administrations 3,753 staff. The college's benefaction erect at a$1.13 billion in 2012.

ANU is constantly hierarchical between the world's best colleges. ANU is arranged equivalent 25th on the earth (primary in Australia) by the 2014/15QS World University Levels, and 45th on the planet (second in Australia) by the 2014/15 Intervals superior Education World University position. In the 2014 Times advanced Education universal Employability University position, a yearly position of college former students employability, ANU was placed 20th on the earth (first in Australia).

ANU consider six Nobel laureates as a genuine part of its employees and graduated class. Understudies entering ANU in 2013 had a middle Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 93, the equivalent most important among Australian colleges. ANU was named the world's 7th most worldwide university in a topical statement by Times Higher Education. Calls for the foundation of a nationalized college in Australia in progress as right on time as 1900. After the area of the country's capital, Canberra, was determined in 1908, area was positioned aside for the college at the foot Black Mountain in the city strategy by Walter Burley Griffin. anticipate the college was bothered by World War II yet continuous with the manufacture of the Department of Post-War renovation in 1942, at last prompt the entry of the Australian nationwide University Act 1946 by the legislature of Australia on 1 August 1946.

A assembly of famous Australian researchers came back from in a foreign country to join the college, counting Sir Howard Florey (co-designer of beneficial penicillin), Sir Mark Oliphant (an minuscule physicist who took a shot at the Manhattan development), Sir Keith Hancock (the Chichele Professor of Economic History at Oxford) and Sir Raymond Firth (a teacher of human being sciences at LSE). Economist Sir Douglas Coplandwas elected as ANU's first Vice-Chancellor and preceding Prime Minister Stanley Bruce served as the first Chancellor.ANU was primarily sorted out into four focuses the Research Schools of Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies and the John Curtin School of Medical investigate.

The principal population hallway, University House, was opened in 1954 for staff and postgraduate understudies. Accumulate Stromlo Observatory, built by the administration in 1924, got to be a piece of ANU in 1957. The principal areas of the ANU documentation, the Menzies and Chifley structure, opened in 1963. The Australian Forestry School, situated in Canberra since 1927, was compound by ANU in 1965.