Friday, February 25, 2011


McMaster University is a public research university located in the city of Hamilton Ontario. The campus is sited in the Golden Horseshoe along the western end of Lake Ontario. On the northern boundaries side of the campus it is popular for the destination for walkers who make use of the many trails that connected the campus to the Royal Botanical Garden Lands. McMaster University operates six academic faculties, comprising Engineering, Health Science, Humanities, Social Science, Science and the DeGroote School of Business. McMaster is a member of the Group of thirteen. (Group of research intensive universities in Canada). In addition, McMaster’s contains four libraries in the campus which comprises 1,303,969 volumes and 3,495,444 total of resources, including videos, maps, sound recording, and microfilm. The four libraries are being broken down to Mills Library houses the Humanities and Social Science collections, Innis Library houses content which supports the academic and research interests DeGroote School of Business, Thode Library houses academic material of various disciplines of science and engineering, while the Health Science Library houses books pertaining to the field to medical sciences.

Student’s life on Campus:

McMaster offers their students McMaster University Student Centre which is the center for student life and programming. It contains a café, study space, common areas, and a number of administrative departments, including the CIBC Conference Hall. Also the McMaster University Student Centre contains an office for student’s organizations like the McMaster Students Union and The Silhouette weekly newspaper as well as other services such as the Campus Health Centre and the campus dentist. On the other hand the campus carries twenty dining outlets located throughout the campus and including two major residence dining facilities. Moreover, the dining faculties also offers students who are vegetarian with a completely vegetarian café known as Bridges café, which made voters voted the University for the Country’s Most Vegan Friendly University through PETA for a number of years.

McMaster is aiming to pursue student to get in touch with the campus sprits by offering students with a varieties of clubs and event to join like the Faculty Student Societies which includes, Commerce Society, McMaster Engineering Society, Bachelor of Health Science Society, Humanities Society, Science Society, Social Science Society, and the Society of Arts and Science Students’.



DeGroote School of Business Campus


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McMaster Class room for Lectures




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