Coordinates: 33°46′31″S 151°06′46″E / 33.775259°S 151.112915°E / -33.775259; 151.112915
Macquarie University Motto And gladly teche from the general Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer c.1400 Established 1964 Type Public Endowment A$850m (31 December 2010) Chancellor The Hon. Michael Egan Provost Judyth Sachs Vice-Chancellor S. Bruce Dowton Admin. staff 2,350 (2012) Students 38,747 (2012) Undergraduates 27,633 (2012) Postgraduates 11,114 (2012) Location North Ryde/Macquarie Park, 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 Website www.mq.edu.auMacquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Macquarie Park, New South Wales. 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. At present, the university offers 87 undergraduate courses and 124 different postgraduate courses to students. The university is governed by a 17-member Council.
Macquarie University also has the largest student exchange programme in Australia. The Academic Ranking of World Universities listed Macquarie as seventh among Australian Universities in its 2009 rankings. The university is also ranked among the national top five recipients of relative research income.
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.
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