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In just half a century, the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of
Canada's Technology Triangle, has become one of Canada s leading comprehensive
universities with 28,000 full- and part-time students in undergraduate and
graduate programs.
For 18 years in a row, UW has been named Canada s
most innovative university in the Maclean s annual university rankings. This
year Waterloo also topped the reputational categories of Most Innovative, most
likely to produce the Leaders of Tomorrow, and Best Overall.
In the next
decade, the university is committed to building a better future for Canada and
the world by championing innovation and collaboration to create solutions
relevant to the needs of today and tomorrow.
Waterloo, as home to the
world s largest post-secondary co-operative education program, embraces its
connections to the world and encourages enterprising partnerships in learning,
research, and discovery.
What s new
Dubai, in the United Arab
Emirates, is the site of a new UW satellite campus offering programs in chemical
and civil engineering starting in 2009; programs in information technology
management and finance and risk management will start in 2010.
The
Balsillie School of International Affairs, founded in 2007, is a collaborative
initiative of the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, with
the support and involvement of the Centre for International Governance
Innovation. Construction of the school s new building in uptown Waterloo is
expected to begin in 2009.
The School of Pharmacy (left) opened in 2008,
anchoring a new Kitchener health sciences campus that will include a facility
for McMaster University s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. Students
began classes in the new building in 2009. |
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