ANU comes 7th in Times Higher Education's most international universities ranking

The ANU cracked the world's top ten global universities in an annual Times Higher Education ranking released on Wednesday.

Finishing seventh in a list of the 200 most international universities of 2017, the ANU climbed 18 places from the previous year to match its 2015 ranking.

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The list considers the proportion of international staff, international students and research papers published with at least one co-author from another country.

Australia went from claiming one to five top-25 places, including the University of New South Wales (14th), University of Melbourne (18th), Monash University (21st) and the University of Sydney (24th).

It is not the first time in the past year attention had been drawn to the ANU's global focus.

Last November the 6th annual Global Employability University Ranking found it had the country's most internationally employable graduates. The ANU came 22nd out of the top 150 institutions across the world for global employability.

ANU Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington was pleased with the results and said being an international university was part of the university's DNA.

"Part of our success is due to the fact ANU also has a strong commitment to draw on the best research from across the globe and to collaborate with researchers in other countries," Professor Hughes-Warrington said.

"We are home to leading centres for the study of the politics, economics and societies of the Asia-Pacific, including specialist areas on China, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar and the nations of the South Pacific."

Professor Hughes-Warrington also attributed a growing global outlook to the ANU's links to national institutions, government departments and foreign embassies and high commissions.

Starting from first place in the Times Higher Education's most international universities ranking, the top five were the ETH Zurich and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Hong Kong University, the National University of Singapore, the Imperial College London and Oxford University.

The list considered all institutions that featured in the top 800 of the education magazine's overall 2017 World University Rankings. The University of Melbourne lead Australia in that list, coming in at 33.