Australian National University

ANU is consistently ranked among the world's top universities. ANU is ranked co-equal 19th in the world with King's College London by the 2015/16 QS World University Rankings, and 45th in the world  by the 2014/15 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In the 2014 Times Higher Education Global Employability University Ranking, an annual ranking of university graduates' employability, ANU was ranked 20th in the world  ANU is ranked 179th  in the 2015 Center for World University Rankings  and 89th  in the 2015 Leiden ranking. ANU ranks 151st in the URAP ranking. ANU is ranked first in the 4 Palmes category in the Eduniversal ranking.ANU is positioned in the Top 10% in teaching, Top 10% in international outlook and Top 10% in research in the world in 2016.ANU counts six Nobel laureates among its faculty and alumni. Students entering ANU in 2013 had a median Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 93, the equal-highest among Australian universities.ANU was named the world's 7th most international university in a 2014 study by Times Higher Education.

A group of eminent Australian scholars returned from overseas to join the university, including Sir Howard Florey , Sir Mark Oliphant , Sir Keith Hancock  and Sir Raymond Firth  Economist Sir Douglas Copland was appointed as ANU's first Vice-Chancellor and former Prime Minister Stanley Bruce served as the first Chancellor.ANU was originally organised into four centres—the Research Schools of Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies and the John Curtin School of Medical Research

The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences is divided into the Research School of Social Sciences  and the Research School of Humanities and the Arts . Within RSSS there are schools dedicated to history, philosophy, sociology, political science and international relations, Middle Eastern studies and Latin American studies. RSHA contains schools focusing on anthropology, archaeology, classics, art history, English literature, drama, film studies, gender studies, linguistics, European languages as well as an art and music school.In 2013, ANU ranked 9th in the world in linguistics and 16th in the world for modern languages

ANU is a member of the Group of Eight and the International Alliance of Research Universities. As Australia’s only member of this association, ANU enjoys close relationships and exchange partnerships with the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Peking University, National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, University of Copenhagen and ETH Zurich