Four CASS disciplines in top 10 in the world

The College has excelled in the latest round of QS World University rankings with four disciplines ranked in the top ten in the world.

Politics and International Studies, which retained the top Australian ranking, has climbed four places to number six in the world. History has maintained its 7th world ranking and top Australian ranking.

Linguistics is still ranked 9th in the world and second in Australia, and Philosophy, which is ranked 10th in the world, is still number one in Australia.

The ANU also ranked above all other Australian universities in Modern Languages (16 in the world) and Sociology (17).

Professor Toni Makkai, Dean and Director of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences says the latest rankings highlight the University's strength and the College’s commitment to excellence in the teaching in arts, humanities and social sciences.

“The College is strongly committed to research led education while ensuring a strong grounding in the theory and method of the core humanities and social science disciplines, she says.

The overall success of ANU in these latest rankings has further established the University as a World leader in providing quality education and puts it in the same league as other top ten Universities such as Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge.”