Wednesday, March 16, 2011

University Of Waterloo

University of Waterloo was founded in July 1st, 1957 as Waterloo College Asssoxiate Faculties by Gerald Hagey which is located in the city of Waterloo, Ontario.  There are 24,891 undergraduate and 3,497 graduate students, with 1,030 full-time faculty members and 2,190 full-time staff; the school has approximately 140,000 alumni in 141 countries.
The University of Waterloo is one of Canada’s leading comprehensive universities, with strong teaching and research programs in six faculties: applied health sciences, arts, engineering, environment, mathematics, and science. The university is well known for being the first university in North America in creating the facult of Mathematics and for having the largest co-operative education program in the world.

The university has 6 faculties:
  1. University of Waterloo Faculty of Applied
  2. Health Sciences
  3. University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts
  4. University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering
  5. University of Waterloo Faculty of Environment
  6. University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics
  7. University of Waterloo Faculty of Science
4 federated and Affiliated Colleges:
  1. Conrad Grebel University College
  2. Renison University College
  3. St. Jerome's University
  4. St. Paul's University College

And more than 35 Research Centres and Institutes such as Canadian Centre of Arts & Technology (CCAT), Centre for Accounting Research & Education (CARE), Centre for Advanced Materials Joining, Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance (CASF), Centre for Advancement of Trenchless Technologies at Waterloo (CATT), Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR), Conrad Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CBET) and so on.

Besides academic studies the university also focuses on building a great experience for student life during 4 years in the university through its Student Life Office.
The Student Life Office plans and promotes events, programs, and resources to help all students in their transitions from high school to university and beyond. We work closely with all other services and departments on campus, and we will point you in the right direction when you need help. For example, they operate an event for new students that they can experience 2 days in University of Waterloo this summer about what your life is going to be like as a first-year student. These students will have opportunities to stay over in a residence community with other first-year students, learn your way around campus, become familiar with your specific faculty buildings, attend a lecture and tutorial, write the English Language Proficiency Exam (ELPE), meet faculty, staff and upper year students in your faculty and build friendships with other first-year students.