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Maquarie University

Macquarie University
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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
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University rankings
Macquarie University
QS World 240
THE-WUR World 251-300
ARWU World 151-200
USNWR World 267=
CWTS Leiden World 361
Australian rankings
QS National 12
THE-WUR National 11-19
ARWU National 9-10
USNWR National 9
CWTS Leiden National 20

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.


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