ANU Open Day 2026

Saturday, 28 March 2026, 9am - 3pm

Tomorrow’s innovators, welcome to ANU Open Day on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. This is your place – start making your mark. Explore your humanities, arts and social sciences opportunities at ANU.

ANU Open Day is a chance to picture yourself studying and living here in 2026/2027. This is your day to soak up new ideas. Join a forensic murder mystery workshop, try music production, test your language skills and more.

Whatever your passion, the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) offers a diverse range of qualifications across the humanities, arts, and social sciences. We are ranked #1 in Australia and in the world top 30 for anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, geography, politics, history, development studies, and sociology.¹

You can also choose from 27 languages on offer, more than any other university in Australia – languages from Europe, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East and Indigenous Australia, as well as Classical languages.

Start exploring activities, information sessions, workshops and tours by registering through EventBrite, or view all CASS Open Day sessions.

Locations marked Auditorium, Lectorial Room 1 and Lectorial Room 2 will be held in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) Building, 146 Ellery Crescent, (ANU Building 146).

Locations marked Manning Clark, Cinema, and T2 will be held in ANU Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre.

To attend other information sessions and activities at ANU or to win a university starter pack, you must separately register for the ANU Open Day.

1. QS World University Subject Rankings 2025.

Register for Information Sessions

Time	Title	Location
9.30-9.50am	Open up your world by studying Languages and Cultures	Lectorial Room 1
9.30-9.50am	Learn about Arabic, Persian and Turkish at ANU	Lectorial Room 2
9.30-9.50am	Studying History at ANU	Auditorium
9.55-10.20am	Student & Alumni Panel: Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities	Cinema
10-10.20am	ANU Sociology	Auditorium
10-10.20am	Studying Music at ANU	Lectorial Room 1
10.25-10.50am	Where Can The Bachelor of Arts Take You?	Manning Clark Hall
11-11.20am	ANU Development Studies	Auditorium
11-11.20am	Study Art & Design at ANU	Lectorial Room 1
11-11.25am	An Introduction to International Relations	Manning Clark Hall
11.30-11.50am	Master of Anthropology and Planetary Futures	Lectorial Room 1
11.30-11.50am	Internships that make a difference	Auditorium
12-12.20pm	Linguistics: Your tool for exploring culture, identity, communication, and much more	Lectorial Room 2
12-12.20pm	Studying English at ANU	Lectorial Room 1
12-12.20pm	ANU Anthropology	Auditorium
12.00-1pm	Study Art & Design at ANU with Q&A session	Lecture Theatre, Room 1.42 (upstairs), Building 105, School of Art & Design, 105 Childers St, Acton ACT 2601
12.30-12.50pm	Museum and Heritage Studies & Heritage Tourism Studies	Lectorial Room 1
12.30-12.50pm	The puzzles and paradoxes of PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics)	Auditorium
12.40-1.05pm	Master of General and Applied Linguistics	T2
1-1.20pm	Discover the Middle Eastern and Central Asia	Lectorial Room 1
1-1.20pm	We are Political Animals: Studying Politics at the ANU	Auditorium
1.30-1.50pm	ANU Gender Studies	Lectorial Room 1
1.30-1.50pm	Welcome to Archaeology	Auditorium
2-2.20pm	Discover the Ancient Mediterranean World: Classical Studies at ANU	Lectorial Room 1
2-2.20pm	ANU Criminology	Auditorium

Tours & Workshops

Time	Title	Location
10-10.30am	ANU Classics Museum Guided Tour	Meet on University Lawn, then head to ANU Classics Museum, Ground Floor, AD Hope building, 14 Ellery Cres, Acton
10-10.45am	Biological Anthropology Lab Tour	Meet on University Lawn, then head to Lab 1.03 Gould Building (#116), 116 Linnaeus Way, Acton
10am-12pm	Beyond Words: Exploring Languages and Cultures	Lectorial Room 2
10am-2pm	School of Art and Design: Student zine stall	SOAD Courtyard, Building 105, School of Art & Design, 105 Childers St, Acton ACT 2601
10am-2pm	School of Art and Design: Design + Make drop-in sessions	ANU Design Hub, Building 105, School of Art & Design, 105 Childers St, Acton ACT 2601
10am-2pm	School of Art and Design: Dye & Fibre garden seasonal activity	Dye & Fibre Garden, Building 105, School of Art & Design, 105 Childers St, Acton ACT 2601
10:30-11:30am	Greek and Latin Taster Session: Discover the language of the ancient Greeks and Romans	Room G12, AD Hope building, 14 Ellery Cres, Acton
11am-12pm	Q&A with School of Music Academics	Biginelli's Cafe, Level 5, Building 100, School of Music Building
11am-12pm	School of Music Building Tour	Meet on University Lawn, then head to School of Music Building
11.30am - 12.15pm	Forensic Anthropology Murder Mystery Workshop	Meet on University Lawn, then head to Lab 1.03 Gould Building (#116), 116 Linnaeus Way, Acton
11.30am-12.30pm	School of Art & Design Tour	Meet on University Lawn, then head to School of Art & Design Building
12-1pm	Q&A with School of Music Academics	Biginelli's Cafe, Level 5, Building 100, School of Music Building
12-1pm	School of Music Building Tour	Meet on University Lawn, then head to School of Music Building
12.30-1pm	Creative Writing Experiments Workshop	Lectorial Room 2
12.45 - 1.30pm	Forensic Anthropology Murder Mystery Workshop	Meet on University Lawn, then head to Lab 1.03 Gould Building (#116), 116 Linnaeus Way, Acton
1-2pm	School of Art & Design Tour	Meet on University Lawn, then head to School of Art & Design Building
1-2pm	Music Production	Recording Studio, Level 5, Building 100, School of Music Building
1-2pm	Music Technology and Music for Film and Video Games	Pro Tools Lab, Level 5, Building 100, School of Music Building
1.10-3.10pm	Speech and Language Science Workshop	Lectorial Room 2
1.30-2pm	ANU Classics Museum Guided Tour	Meet on University Lawn, then head to ANU Classics Museum, Ground Floor, AD Hope building, 14 Ellery Cres, Acton
1.45 - 2.30pm	Forensic Anthropology Murder Mystery Workshop	Meet on University Lawn, then head to Lab 1.03 Gould Building (#116), 116 Linnaeus Way, Acton
2-2.30pm	Planetary Anthropology Picnic	Meet on University Lawn then head to Copeland Courtyard (part of Copeland Building complex), located around 24 Kingsley Place, Acton ACT 2600
2-3pm	School of Music Building Tour	Meet on University Lawn, then head to School of Music Building

Open Houses

Time	Title	Location
9.30am-3pm	Classics Museum Open House	ANU Classics Museum, Ground Floor, AD Hope Building, 14 Ellery Cres, Acton
10am-2pm	School of Art and Design: Open House: Live studios and hands-on activities	SOAD studios, Courtyard, and project Spaces, Building 105, School of Art and Design