Macquarie University

Macquarie University is a public research university in Sydney, Australia. It was founded in 1964 and named for Lachlan Macquarie, a colonial governor of New South Wales. The campus occupies a large site at Macquarie Park in the city's northwest, beside a business park. It is a comprehensive university founded in the postwar expansion of Australian higher education.

Faculties include arts, business and economics, medicine, health and human sciences, and science and engineering. The university is known for linguistics and cognitive science, actuarial studies, psychology, and earth and environmental sciences. Macquarie University Hospital and the Australian Hearing Hub sit on campus and matter to graduate students in health, audiology, and related fields.

Enrollment is about 44,000 students, with a large international cohort from China, South and Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. Graduate students are a substantial minority. Faculty number in the thousands. Alumni work in Australian business, public service, and the professions.

The university awards coursework master's degrees, research master's, and the Ph.D. Coursework master's programs are common in business, education, and health; doctoral work is supervisor-led, often in research centers. The calendar uses two main sessions with optional intensive terms. Students work on a suburban campus with a railway station on site and internships in the adjacent Macquarie Park corporate district.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Macquarie University lists 3 graduate programs in languages & linguistics and business & management: 2 master's programs and 1 doctoral program. Macquarie University holds rank 186 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.