University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo (often referred to as Waterloo, UW or UWaterloo) is a public research university with its main campus located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is situated on 404 hectares (1,000 acres) of land in the "Uptown" Waterloo, adjacent to Waterloo Park. The University offers academic programs that are managed by six faculties and ten school-based fakultas-. The university also operates four satellite campuses and four affiliated university colleges. Waterloo is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada. University of Waterloo is most famous for Cooperative Education (co-op) program, which allows students to integrate their education with work experience who apply. University of Waterloo operates the largest program post-secondary co-op of its kind in the world, with more than 19,000 students and 5,200 co-op employers.

This institution was founded on July 1, 1957 as Waterloo College Faculty Association, a semi-autonomous agency of Waterloo College, then an affiliate of the University of Western Ontario. This entity was formally separated from Waterloo College and was established as a university with the passage of the University of Waterloo Act by the Parliament of Ontario in 1959. It was established to meet the need to train engineers and technicians for the post-war economic growth of Canada. Grow substantially over the next decade, adding arts faculty in 1960, and the College of Optometry of Ontario who moved from Toronto in 1967.

The university is co-educational, and has nearly 27,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 graduate students. Alumni and former students of the university can be found in Canada and in more than 140 countries. 200-300th ranked university in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, 152 in the QS World University Rankings 2015-2016 and 179 in 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Waterloo varsity team, known as the Waterloo Warriors, competing in the Ontario University Athletics conference of the Canadian Inter Sport.

Faculties and Schools of the University of Waterloo

Applied Health Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Systems

Arts

School of Accounting and Finance

Balsillie School of International Affairs [a]

Renison School of Social Work [b]

Engineering

School of Architecture

environment

School of Environment, Enterprise and Development School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability School of Planning

Mathematics

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Science

School of Optometry and Vision Science

School of Pharmacy

Waterloo is a publicly funded research university, and a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. It functions on a system-term basis, with terms autumn, winter and spring. Degree Programme comprises the majority of school enrollment, consisting of 24 377 full-time and part-time students. university awarded 5,041 undergraduate degrees, 267 doctoral, 1,275 master's degrees, and 192 professional degrees first in 2012-2013. The University is organized into six faculties, which operate a combined total of 10 schools and more than 50 academic departments.