ANU leads Australia in philosophical matters
ANU has excelled in the highly influential Philosophical Gourmet Report . Announced last week, the Report ranks the top universities around the globe based on reputational surveys completed by over 250 philosophers. ANU took out the top ranking in Australia, ahead of the University of Sydney's philosophy department, the only other Australian institution in the top 50, which ranked at 45. Internationally, ANU ranked 15 in the world, equal with Cornell University and The University of California, Berkeley, and ahead of every department in the United Kingdom except that of Oxford University. ANU also excelled in the speciality ranking, coming out equal first in the current hot topics of Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Biology.
