Macquarie University is an open examination college situated in Sydney, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Established in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third college to be built up in the metropolitan range of Sydney.
The college's five resources, the Macquarie University Hospital and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management are situated on the college's fundamental grounds in rural Sydney. The Macquarie City Campus is situated in the Sydney focal business area.
The college is the first in Australia to completely adjust its degree framework to the Bologna Accord.
The thought of establishing a third college in Sydney was hailed in the mid 1960s when the New South Wales Government shaped a board of enquiry into advanced education to manage an apparent crisis in college enlistments in New South Wales. Amid this enquiry, the Senate of the University of Sydney put in an accommodation which highlighted 'the quick need to set up a third college in the metropolitan region'. After much verbal confrontation a future grounds area was chosen in what was then a semi-country piece of North Ryde, and it was chosen that the future college be named after Lachlan Macquarie, a vital early legislative leader of the settlement of New South Wales.
The college initially opened to understudies on 6 March 1967 with a larger number of understudies than expected. The Australian Universities Commission had took into account 510 compelling full-time understudies (EFTS) however Macquarie had 956 enrolments and 622 EFTS. Somewhere around 1968 and 1969, enrolment at Macquarie expanded significantly with an additional 1200 EFTS, with 100 new scholastic staff utilized. 1969 likewise saw the foundation of the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM).