About Us

Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university in Macquarie Park, New South Wales. Macquarie is ranked in the 201st-300th bracket and 8th-9th in Australia in the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities.^[3] Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney. The university comprises four faculties, and is the fourth largest University in Sydney.^[4] At present, the university offers 87 undergraduate courses and 124 different postgraduate courses to students.^[5][6] The university is governed by a 17-member Council.^[7]

Macquarie University also has the largest student exchange programme in Australia.^[8] The university is also ranked among the national top five recipients of relative research income.^[9]

Also affiliated with the university are several research centres, schools and institutes including the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, the Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Science, the Macquarie University Research Park and the Macquarie University Hospital.

Macquarie University's linguistics department developed the Macquarie Dictionary, the copyright on which it still owns.