The new chancellor wants it to be a top-20 global university
Ms Bishop set the objective while announcing a second five-year term for vice chancellor Brian Schmidt. “He has the bold thinking, the ideas, the vision that is needed to take this university to the next level.”
“Australia is an extraordinary country, considered in the top-20 on every socio-economic indicator that counts. I believe that Australia should have a university that is ranked in the top 20 around the world. My ambition is for that university to be ANU … a national university with a commitment to excellence to the very best in teaching and research, that stands alongside the great universities of the world,” she said.
Ms Bishop did not specify how long this should take.
ANU rates 50th in the world in the present Times Higher ranking (behind Uni Melbourne at =32nd). It is the first Australian institution in the competing QS product at =29th. However, in the research driven Academic Ranking of World Universities ANU is fourth in-country and 76th in the world. And on the research-citation based Leiden ranking ANU is eighth in Australia and 205th in the world for scientific impact.
Professor Schmidt set out his second-term agenda earlier this month (CMM February 10).