Macquarie University

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

Macquarie is the fourth largest university in Sydney (38 753 students in 2013). The University has the largest student exchange program in Australia. In 2012, 9802 students from Asia were enrolled at Macquarie University (Sydney campus and offshore programs in China, Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore). Campus Life managing non-academic university services. Food and retail, sport and recreation, student groups, child care, and entertainment.

The university currently comprises 35 departments in five faculties:

1. Faculty of Arts
2. Faculty of Business and Economics
3. Faculty of Human Sciences
4. Faculty of Science and Engineering
5. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Research centers, schools and institutions affiliated with the university:

1. Macquarie Graduate School of Management
2. The Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability
3. Macquarie University Hospital
4. The Hearing Hub Australia

Macquarie University Australian Hearing Hub partnered with Cochlear. Cochlear headquarters are in college. The Hearing Hub Australia include Australian Hearing's headquarters.

The Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability is a research center that promotes changes to environmental sustainability, affiliated with the University and located on the campus.

Access Macquarie Limited was established in 1989 as a commercial arm of the university. It facilitates and supports the commercial needs of the industry, business and government organizations that want to take advantage of academic expertise wider University community.

Global Leadership Program (GLP) is a student organization and programs undertaken by the majority of Macquarie Students. All students at the university are encouraged to undertake programs to improve leadership skills, cross-cultural understanding and international awareness. After completing GLP, students receive a formal notation of their academic transcript.

Macquarie University has its own community radio station on campus, 2SER FM. The station is jointly owned by Macquarie University and the University of Technology, Sydney.

Macquarie University students celebrate Conception Day every year since 1969 to - according to legend - commemorating the date of conception of Lachlan Macquarie, such as his birthday falls at the wrong time of year for celebrations. Conception Day is traditionally held on the last day of classes before the semester break mid-September.

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

Macquarie is ranked in the top 40 universities in the Asia-Pacific region and in Australia on nine universities by the Academic Ranking World Universities, US News & World Report ranking and QS World University Rankings. Macquarie is ranked just outside the eight in Australia (Group of Eight universities) in the majority of international ratings, or has been ranked the eighth in Australia in the international rankings. In 2011-2012 CWTS Leiden Ranking Macquarie was ranked 4th in Australia. Macquarie University was ranked in 2014 :. 239 in the world (9 in Australia) in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, 254 in the world (9 in Australia) in the QS World University Rankings, and 301-350 in the world in the Times Higher Education University Rankings World.

Macquarie is Australia's highest ranked universities under the age of 50 and ranked 18th in the world (before the golden jubilee in 2014), according to the QS World University Rankings.

Macquarie University was ranked among the top 50 universities in the world of linguistics, psychology and the earth and marine, and ranked in the top five nationally for the philosophy and science of the earth and the sea, according to the 2014 QS World University Rankings.

Macquarie ranked 67th in the world for Arts and Humanities (5 each in Australia), according to the Times Higher Education 2015 rankings by subject. Arts and Humanities is the best discipline Macquarie area in the rankings. Macquarie is one of four non-Group of Eight universities ranked in the top 100 universities in the world in the area of ​​discipline.

Macquarie Graduate School of Management is one of the oldest business schools in Australia. In 2011, The Economist MGSM ranked 73rd in the world, 7 in Asia Pacific and one in Sydney / New South Wales. [91] It was ranked 13th in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the QS Global 200 Business Schools Report 2013-14. In 2014, The Economist ranked MGSM 5 in Asia-Pacific, 3 in Australia, one in Sydney / New South Wales and 49th in the world. It is the highest-ranked business school in Australia and ranks 68th in the world in 2015 Financial Times MBA rankings.

Macquarie University is ranked first in environmental science and ecological research in Australia and New Zealand, and ranked 14th in the world, according to the Times Higher Education.