Australian National University

Australia National University (ANU) is a public university in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Located in the suburb of Acton, the main campus includes seven colleges of education and research, as well as several national institutes.

Founded in 1946, it is the only university that has been created by the Parliament of Australia. Originally a graduate research university, ANU graduation began teaching in 1960 when he joined the University College of Canberra, which had been established in 1929 as a campus of the University of Melbourne. ANU enrolls 10,052 undergraduate and 10,840 graduate students and employs 3,753 employees. The university endowment stands at A $ 1.13 billion in 2012.

ANU is considered among the best universities in the world. ANU is ranked 19 co-equal in the world (first in Australia) with Kings College London for the 2015/16 QS World University Rankings, and number 45 in the world (second in Australia) 2014 / 15 by the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. In the 2014 Times Higher Education Ranking Global Employability University, an annual ranking of employment of university graduates, ANU was ranked 20th in the world (first in Australia). ANU is ranked 89th (first in Australia) in the 2015 ranking of Leiden. ANU ranks first in category 4 Eduniversal Palmes ranking. ANU is positioned in the top 10% in education, more than 10% on the international stage and 10% in research in the world in 2016.

ANU has six Nobel laureates among its teachers and students. 94% of the ANU research is classified as "above world standard" par excellence of the Government of Australia in Research Report 2012.Students enter Australia ANU in 2013 had a median Australia Tertiary Admission Rank of 93, the equivalent of highest among Australian universities. ANU was named the 7th most international university in the world in a 2014 study by the Times Higher Education.

Post-war origins

Calls for the creation of a national university in Australia started as early as 1900. After the location of the national capital, Canberra, it was determined in 1908, the land is intended to college at Cerro Black feet in designs city Walter Burley Griffin. Planning college was interrupted by the Second World War, but resumed with the creation of the Department of Reconstruction Post-War in 1942, ultimately leading to the approval of Law 1946 of the National University of Australia by Parliament Australia on August 1, 1946.

A group of eminent Australian researchers returned from abroad to join the university, including Sir Howard Florey (co-creator of the medicinal penicillin), Sir Mark Oliphant (a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project), Sir Keith Hancock (the Chichele professor of economic History at Oxford) and Sir Raymond Firth (professor of anthropology at LSE). Sir Douglas Copland economy was appointed as the first rector of ANU and former Prime Minister Stanley Bruce served as the first chancellor. ANU was organized in four centers Schools Physical Sciences Research, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies and the John Curtin School of Medical Research.

The first room of the resident, University House, was opened in 1954 for teachers and graduate students. Mount Stromlo Observatory, established by the federal government in 1924, became part of the ANU in 1957. The top of the ANU Library, the Menzies and Chifley buildings, opened in 1963. The School of Forestry of Australia, found in Canberra since 1927, they merged by ANU in 1965.

Canberra University College

Canberra University College (CUC) was the first institution of higher education in the capital, having been established in 1929 and enroll its first students graduate in 1930. Its foundation was led by Sir Robert Garran, one of the drafters of the Constitution of Australia and the first Attorney General of Australia. CUC was affiliated with the University of Melbourne and their degrees were awarded by the university. CUC include leading academic historian Manning Clark, a political scientist Finlay Crisp, poet A. D. Hope and economist Heinz Arndt.

In 1960, he joined CUC ANU as the School of General Studies, initially with faculties of arts, economics, law and science. Faculties in Oriental studies and engineering were introduced later. Bruce Hall, the first residential college for college students, opened in 1961.

Modern era

Canberra School of Music and Art School merged by ANU Canberra in 1992.

ANU established its School of Medicine in 2002, after obtaining the approval of the federal government in 2000.

On January 18, 2003, forest fires Canberra largely destroyed the Mount Stromlo Observatory. ANU astronomers now conduct research from Siding Spring Observatory, which contains 10 telescopes, including the Anglo-Australian Telescope.

In February 2013, the financial and ANU graduate businessman Graham Tuckwell made the largest donation in the history of college Australia, giving $ 50 million to fund a scholarship program undergraduate at ANU.

ANU is well known for its history of student activism and, in recent years, its divestment campaign fossil fuels, which is one of the oldest and most successful in the country. The ANU Council decision to divest two companies of fossil fuels in 2014 was criticized by ministers in the government of Abbott, but defended by the Vice Chancellor Ian Young, who said:

On transfers, it is clear that we were on the right and played a truly national and international leadership role. We seem to have played an important role in a movement that now seems unstoppable.