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Oct 8th
World’s top 100 Universities of 2010 list.
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Anu University
Dec 30th
The Australian National University is unique among its contemporaries as the only Australian university established by an Act of Federal Parliament, in 1946. It is also one of Australia’s most research-intensive universities, with a high ratio of academic staff to students.
The University campus has over 200 buildings and occupies 145 hectares adjacent to the city centre of Canberra.
The University also has smaller campuses:
* Mt Stromlo Observatory (west of Canberra)
* Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, western New South Wales (NSW))
* North Australia Research Unit (Darwin, Northern Territory)
* Kioloa (coastal campus near Bawley Point, on the NSW South Coast)
Some interesting facts and figures about our unique University:
A recent independent quality review of the University found it ranked among the world’s best research universities, with 77 per cent of external assessors ranking ANU as one of the top 50 universities in their field in the world — including 44 per cent who rated ANU in the world’s top 25 universities.
The Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education’s Academic Ranking of World Universities has ranked ANU ahead of every other university in the Southern Hemisphere two years in a row.
ISIHighlyCited, a ranking of researchers who have made fundamental contributions to their disciplines in the last 20 years, identifies 21 ANU researchers among the 50 Australians at the top of their field.
ANU has more Federation Fellows – lucrative fellowships awarded by the Australian Research Council – than any other Australian university.
ANU has more members of the Royal Society – the world’s oldest scientific academy – on staff than any other Australian university.
The University has 13,487 students, representing 94 countries.
ANU has around 3,600 staff.
There are more than two million volumes – and one of the largest collections on the Asia-Pacific outside of the region – in the University’s libraries.
A “green” campus, ANU has more than 10,000 trees within its grounds. In 2003 the University was awarded the Silver Greenhouse Challenge Award at the annual Australian Engineering Excellence Awards, placing it second of 800 signatories.
The oldest building on campus is Old Canberra House, built in 1913. It currently houses the Humanities Research Centre and Centre for Cross Cultural Research, but was once home to the British High Commission.
York University
Dec 30th
York University is a dynamic, interdisciplinary academic community of researchers, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students from over 155 countries.
President and Vice-ChancellorWith its 50th anniversary fast approaching in 2009, York University is now Canada’s third largest university, world-renowned for attracting students who forge their own unique paths. That’s because York offers an unparalleled academic experience. Our unique, interdisciplinary approach to learning allows students to study their subjects from many different angles simultaneously and allows them to combine majors in completely different fields. This approach expands the horizons of our students, providing them with a broad perspective of the world that opens up new ways of thinking. And our research tackles challenges by taking a uniquely interdisciplinary approach that results in real-world solutions.
Waterloo University
Dec 30th
University of Waterloo
Waterloo has long been recognized as the most innovative university in Canada. We are committed to advancing learning and knowledge through teaching, research, and scholarship in our faculties, colleges, and schools.
Our six faculties:
• Applied Health Sciences
• Arts
• Engineering
• Environmental Studies
• Mathematics
• Science
Our federated university and affiliated colleges:
• St. Jerome’s University
• Conrad Grebel University College
• Renison College
• St. Paul’s United College
Our five faculty-based professional schools:
• Accountancy (based in Arts)
• Architecture (Engineering)
• Computer Science (Mathematics)
• Optometry (Science)
• Planning (Environmental Studies)
A sixth, the School of Pharmacy, based in Science, will open in January 2008, anchoring a new Kitchener health sciences campus that will include a facility for McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.
What sets us apart is how we go about accomplishing our mission. From the beginning, Waterloo has been an outward-looking university, aware of and responsive to the needs of society.
We have the largest post-secondary co-operative education program in the world, and our students graduate with the knowledge, skills, and practical experience required to solve today’s complex and pressing problems and to embrace future challenges.
But producing the leaders of tomorrow is just part of our mission. A research-intensive university, we’re committed to discovering new knowledge and finding ways to use that knowledge for the benefit of all.
We are the national leader in the transfer of ideas and technology to the private sector. More Canadian high-tech and knowledge-based spin-off companies trace their roots to the University of Waterloo than to any other school.
University Of California
Dec 30th
The California Institue of Technology is an excellent tertiary education facility. It’s mission statement is to ‘expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education’. They specialise in science and technology and teach students by investigating the most challenging fundamental problems whilst educating them to become creative members of society.
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