The Australian National University (ANU) is Australia's only national university, established by the Federal Parliament of Australia in 1946 to undertake research of the highest international caliber and advance the intellectual standing of the nation. As a founding member of the prestigious Group of Eight (Go8) and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), ANU is consistently ranked #1 in Australia and among the top 35 universities worldwide (QS World University Rankings #30). With six Nobel laureates among its faculty and alumni, ANU educates over 21,000 scholars from more than 100 countries across seven world-renowned academic colleges: Arts & Social Sciences (CASS); Asia & the Pacific (CAP, including the Crawford School of Public Policy); Business & Economics (CBE); Engineering, Computing & Cybernetics (CECC); Law; Science (including the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics); and Health & Medicine (John Curtin School of Medical Research). Nestled on a lush 145-hectare campus in the heart of Canberra, bordering Lake Burley Griffin, ANU provides direct access to Australia's national institutions, parliament, foreign embassies, and the CSIRO, empowering students with unmatched global connections, groundbreaking discovery, and flexible double-degree study options.

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