Theacademic structure of the Australian National University is organised as seven academic colleges which contain a network of inter-related faculties, research schools and centres. Each college is responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate education as well as research in its respective field.
The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences is divided into the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA).
Within the Research School of Social Sciences there are schools dedicated to history, philosophy, sociology, politics and international relations, Arab and Islamic studies and Latin and American studies.[1]
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 andmusic school.[2]
The Australian Centre for Indigenous History (ACIH) was established within the ANU School of History, to "raise the profile of the study ofIndigenous history through internationally competitive scholarship", among other aims. The centre was officially launched on 28 March 2003, with SenatorAden Ridgeway officiating.Ann McGrath was the founding director, and stayed at the helm until 2019, when Lawrence Bamblett andMaria Nugent were appointed co-directors.Gordon Briscoe was one of two inauguralresearch fellows at ACIH.[3][4]
The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific is a specialist centre ofAsian andPacific studies and languages. The College is home to three academic schools: theCrawford School of Public Policy, a research intensive public policy school; the School of Culture History and Language, the nation's centre dedicated to investigating and learning with and about the people, languages, and lands of Asia and the Pacific; andCoral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australia's foremost collection of expertise in the politics and international affairs of Asia and the Pacific.[5]
The college also houses the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) and theCSCAP Australia.[6]
The College is affiliated withColumbia University'sWeatherhead East Asian Institute[7] andIndiana University's Pan Asia Institute.[8]
The ANU College of Business and Economics comprises four Research Schools, of Accounting; Economics; Finance, Actuarial Studies & Statistics; and Management.[9]
TheANU College of Engineering, Computing & Cybernetics is divided into three Schools; School of Engineering, School of Computing and School of Cybernetics. ANU is home to theNational Computational Infrastructure and was a co-founder ofNICTA, which was the maininformation and communications technology research centre in Australia until 2016. At that stage NICTA was merged withCSIRO to form Data 61, a Research Business Unit.
The ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy, established in 2025. The College incorporates theANU Law School,the Crawford School of Public Policy, the School of Regulation and Global Governance(RegNet), and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), creating a dynamic environment for interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative approaches to key challenges to enact meaningful and sustainable change.
TheANU College of Health & Medicine encompasses theJohn Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), theANU Medical School, Research School of Psychology, and National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health.[10]
TheANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences comprises the Research Schools of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, andPhysics; Fenner School of Environment and Society; Mathematical Sciences Institute; andAustralian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.
TheANU Research School of Physics focuses primarily on research into materials science and engineering; lasers, nonlinear optics and photonics; nanotechnology and mesoscopic physics; physics of atoms, molecules and the nucleus; plasma physics and surface science; physics and the environment. Under the direction ofMark Oliphant, nuclear physics was one of the university's most notable early research priorities, leading to the construction of a 500 megajoulehomopolar generator and a 7.7 megaelectronvoltscyclotron in the 1950s.[11]
The Marie Reay Teaching Centre is located in the Kambri area. It is 6 levels tall and contains classrooms used by a wide variety of subjects, as well as a lecture theatre on the top floor.
There are individual research centres connected to the University.
In May 2010, Prime MinisterKevin Rudd announced a $111.7 million commitment to the development by ANU of a newAustralian National Institute for Public Policy.[12] The new National Institute is intended to centralize public policy expertise. A good portion of the funds ($53.1 million) were earmarked for building and developing the previously announcedAustralian Centre on China in the World, which is one of three specialist centres along with theNational Security College and theAustralia and New Zealand School of Government to be specifically incorporated under the umbrella of the National Institute. $19.8 million is set aside to create a joint building for the other two centres, with a further $17.3 million expressly dedicated to the National Security College.
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