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Coat of arms of ANU
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| Motto | Naturam Primum Cognoscere Rerum |
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Motto in English
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"First to learn the nature of things" |
| Type | Public, National |
| Established | 1946 |
| Endowment | A$1.13 billion |
| Chancellor | Gareth Evans AC |
| Vice-Chancellor | Brian Schmidt AC |
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Administrative staff
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3,753 |
| Undergraduates | 10,052 |
| Postgraduates | 10,840 |
| Location | Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| Campus | Urban, 1.45 square kilometres (358 acres) |
| Affiliations | IARU, Group of Eight, APRU, AURA, ASAIHL |
| Website | anu.edu.au |
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| University rankings | |
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| Australian National University | |
| QS World | 20 |
| THE-WUR World | 48 |
| ARWU World | 97 |
| USNWR World | 80= |
| CWTS Leiden World | 86 |
| Australian rankings | |
| QS National | 1 |
| THE-WUR National | 2 |
| ARWU National | 3 |
| USNWR National | 5 |
| CWTS Leiden National | 1 |
| ERA National | 3 |
The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes.
Founded in 1946, it is the only university to have been created by the Parliament of Australia. Originally a postgraduate research university, ANU commenced undergraduate teaching in 1960 when it integrated the Canberra University College, which had been established in 1929 as a campus of the University of Melbourne. ANU enrolls 10,052 undergraduate and 10,840 postgraduate students and employs 3,753 staff. The university's endowment stood at A$1.13 billion in 2012.
ANU is ranked 1st in Australia & the whole of Oceania, and 20th in the world by the 2018 QS World University Rankings, and 47th in the world (second in Australia) by the 2016/17 Times Higher Education. ANU was named the world's 7th (first in Australia) most international university in a 2017 study by Times Higher Education. In the 2016 Times Higher Education Global Employability University Ranking, an annual ranking of university graduates' employability, ANU was ranked 22nd in the world (first in Australia). ANU is ranked 100th (first in Australia) in the CWTS Leiden ranking.
ANU counts six Nobel laureates and 49 Rhodes scholars among its faculty and alumni. The university has educated two prime ministers, 30 current Australian ambassadors and more than a dozen current heads of Government departments of Australia.
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