International outreach
As a leading research university, and to underpin our role as Australia's national university, ANU must have a strong international focus. International engagement, including attracting the most able students from around the world to study at ANU, will take many forms, including:
- links with prestigious international universities and research organisations which raise the profile of ANU and build research and education links
- links with international research funding and philanthropic agencies
- links with governments to facilitate the support of international students at ANU.
In order to achieve these outcomes, ANU will develop a dedicated International Office to co-ordinate activities across the University and provide a greater focus on international engagement.
Internationalisation will also become a much greater part of the educational programs of the University. Graduates of ANU will need to work in an international world. An understanding of Australia's place in the world and of a variety of cultures will increasingly be an indispensable educational attribute. Whether they are overseas students having an international experience at ANU or an Australian student taking advantage of an experience with an ANU partner institution overseas, all ANU students will increasingly need to see themselves as international students.
- ANU will encourage all Australian students to have an international study experience.
A defining feature of ANU is our strong focus on Asia and the Pacific. Continuing to strengthen this focus is an important part of the national policy role of the university.
- ANU will continue to increase our focus on Asia and the Pacific.
Some measures of success
- By 2015, ANU will increase the percentage of research income from international sources to 8.0 per cent, rising to 10.0 per cent in 2020 (compared to 6.69 per cent in 2009).
- By 2015, ANU will increase the percentage of international HDR students with an externally funded scholarship to 45 per cent, rising to 60 per cent in 2020 (compared to 39 per cent in 2011).
- By 2015, ANU will increase the percentage of domestic undergraduate graduating students who studied part of their academic program overseas to 15 per cent, rising to 25 per cent in 2020 (compared to 13.6 per cent in 2010).
