Rankings
The University currently has the highest ranking for universities in Australia. It is also one of the highest ranked universities in Asia and the Southern Hemisphere according to several compilations, including the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and the QS World University Rankings (the latter two were amalgamated as the THE-QS World University Rankings until 2010). In the 2011-12 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the ANU is ranked at 38, behind its rival the University of Melbourne at 37.
The QS World University Rankings consistently ranks the Australian National University highly. In 2011 it was ranked first in Australasia and twenty-sixth in the World, one below the University of Tokyo, one above King's College London. It has dropped nine places since the 2009 THE-QS World University Rankings (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings) where it came seventeenth globally.
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