Macquarie University - Rankings and Awards

Rankings and Awards

Macquarie has been consistently ranked in the top 10 Universities in Australia and among the top 200 Universities in the world by various sources. Macquarie University showed a significant drop in the 2007 THES - QS World University Rankings (From 2010 two separate rankings will be produced by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings). The university has recently declined consistently in these rankings: of the top 200 universities, after being placed 67th in 2005, it ranked equal 168th in 2007, 182nd in 2008 and 189th in 2009.

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2009 ranked Macquarie University as 7th in Australia (following University of Western Australia and UNSW), while the UK’s Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings published in October 2009 ranked Macquarie 9th in Australia (behind the University of Adelaide and the University of Western Australia).

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years (1998–2007) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions. Macquarie University teachers also have received numerous awards and citations from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education since it was established in 2004. The university positions itself as being research intensive, and therefore also ranked among the national top five recipients of relative research income.

The Economist 2009 Full Time MBA rankings ranked the university's Graduate School of Management at 55th in the world, 4th in the Asia-Pacific region and 2nd in Australia following Melbourne University's Melbourne Business School.