Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University

The Australian National University is a major world centre for the study, research and teaching of Asia and is the leading centre for Asian Studies in Australia. The Faculty of Asian Studies cooperates with the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies and the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management to offer the widest range of Asian studies available in Australia both at undergraduate and graduate levels. There are some 200 Asian specialists at the ANU. The programs are backed up by library resources unparalleled in Australia which provide more than 70% of Australia's total Asian Studies resource material within the University Library system and the National Library of Australia, located in Canberra.

The Faculty of Asian Studies seeks to give students a combination of expertise in a discipline and a depth of knowledge of a particular Asia region. Courses are designed specifically to support the study of an Asian language as a major field of study, along with a non-language Asian Studies major in Asian Histories, Contemporary Asian Societies, Asian Politics and International Relations, Asian Religions or Japanese Linguistics. Asian Studies students may also access relevant units/majors in other Faculties.

Eight reasons for choosing ANU for your Asian Studies degree

1. AsiaWeek magazine ranks The Australian National University as one of the top 10 universities in the Asia-Pacific region, and the number one Australian university.
2. The most recent worldwide survey of Asian Studies programs around the world, conducted by University of Leiden in 1996, rated ANU number one worldwide in Asian Studies.
3. The London Times Higher Education Supplement ranks the ANU among the seven top universities in the world, along with Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Stanford and the Sorbonne.
4. The Good Universities Guide 2000 gives the ANU a five star rating (the highest possible) for prestige, per capita income, student demand, research performance, staff qualifications, graduate outcomes (jobs or further study) and graduate starting salaries. Not only this, but it gives five stars for both academic services and leisure facilities. No other Australian University received such a high ranking.
5. For half a century, the ANU has been a major world resource for research and teaching on Asia and has some of the world's leading specialists.
6. 200 Asian specialists at the ANU cover the entire Asia-Pacific region to an extent unmatched by any other Australian university.
7. Between the ANU Library and the National Library, Canberra has over 80% of Australia's total Asia-related books and periodicals.
8. Asian Studies students can study Indonesian, Japanese (classical and modern), Chinese (classical and modern), Korean, Hindi, Urdu, Vietnamese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Thai, and Lao. No other Australian university offers this range of languages.