Macquarie University

Macquarie University

Seal of Macquarie University
Motto	And gladly teche
Type	Public
Established	1964
Endowment	A$900m (31 December 2014)
Chancellor	Michael Egan
Vice-Chancellor	S Bruce Dowton
Academic staff	1457 (2014)
Administrative staff	1,388 (2014)
Students	39,335 (2014)
Undergraduates	28,152 (2014)
Postgraduates	11,183 (2014)
Location	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 33°46′31″S 151°6′50″E / 33.77528°S 151.11389°E / -33.77528; 151.11389
Campus	Urban, Parkland
Named After	Lachlan Macquarie
Colours	Green, Gold & White
Affiliations	ACU, OUA, ASAIHL
Website	www.mq.edu.au

Coordinates: 33°46′31″S 151°06′46″E / 33.775259°S 151.112915°E / -33.775259; 151.112915

Green, Gold & White  

Macquarie University is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney.

Established as a verdant university, Macquarie has five faculties as well as the Macquarie University Hospital and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management which are located on the university's main campus in suburban Sydney.

The university is the first in Australia to fully align its degree system with the Bologna Accord.

The idea of founding a third university in Sydney was flagged in the early 1960s when the New South Wales Government formed a committee of enquiry into higher education to deal with a perceived emergency in university enrollments in New South Wales. During this enquiry, the Senate of the University of Sydney put in a submission which highlighted 'the immediate need to establish a third university in the metropolitan area'. After much debate a future campus location was selected in what was then a semi-rural part of North Ryde, and it was decided that the future university be named after Lachlan Macquarie, an important early governor of the colony of New South Wales.