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The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff. The school is notable for being the first university in North America to create a Faculty of Mathematics, and for having the largest co-operative education program in the world.
Maclean's Reputational University Rankings for Canadian universities has consistently ranked UW first in the "Most Innovative" and "Leaders of Tomorrow" sections, and second in the "Highest Quality" section. The school is also known for having more company spin-offs than any other Canadian university. As of Fall 2009, there were 26,451 full-time (1,628 part-time) undergraduate and 3,505 full-time (921 part-time) graduate students, with 1,047 full-time faculty members and 2,184 staff. The school has approximately 151,000 alumni in 143 countries.
Location & Facilities
The main campus is located along University Avenue in Waterloo, Ontario on what was, until the 1960s, farmland. Since its creation, a considerable level of commercial and residential development has built up around the Waterloo campus, notably with many offices of high-tech firms.
A new campus for the health sciences program has been built in Kitchener, Ontario and includes a satellite of McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy.