The University of Guelph is ranked as one of Canada’s top comprehensive universities by Maclean’s magazine due to the University commitment to students learning and innovative research. Also given top marks for student satisfaction among medium sized universities in Canada by The Globe and Mail. The University is located in Guelph, Ontario Canada. The University currently offers over 94 undergraduates degree, 48 graduate programs, and 6 associate degrees in many different disciplines, it is the on-going history of achievement in its roots of agriculture and veterinary medicine, and the modern focus on life sciences that define the university. University of Guelph holds 39 Canada Research Chair positions in the research areas of natural sciences, engineering, health sciences and social sciences. So for students who are interested in science and engineering U of G are the best university to attend and achieve your career due to their intensive learning in science and engineering can help students succeed their learning experiences. Campus

The Main campus is located in Guelph; it spans about 1,223 acres, including the 408 acre University of Guelph Arboretum and a 30 acre research park. The campus is design to mix old fashioned brick buildings with mid century Brutalism, as well as more contemporary stone structures, is generally regarded as scenic and architecturally diverse. With over 5,000 students in single and family residences, Guelph has one of the largest and well established university housing systems in Canada. U of G offers students a variety of Residence Learning Communities, including Academic Clusters and Living Learning Centers, bringing together students with common interests. It is a great opportunities to meet other students with a friendly environment atmosphere.

University of Guelph also has another location in Toronto, right next to Humber College. (University of Guelph Humber) The University of Guelph Humber is a university/college partnership between the University of Guelph and Humber College. The University campus is spotted up on the North Campus of Humber College. The University offers eight regular four year academic programs, each of which grant both a university honors degree and college diploma. This is a great opportunities for students to achieve both their degree at the same time with a diploma where they can have hands on working experiences of their program in the real world.

Faculties

       The University of Guelph consists of seven faculties:

·         College of Arts

·         College of Biological Science

·         College of Management & Economics

·         College of Physical & Engineering Science

·         College of Social & Applied Human Sciences

·         Ontario Agricultural College

·         Ontario Veterinary College
Other areas of academic specialization include the:

·         School of Computer Science

·         School of Engineering

·         School of English and Theater Studies

·         School of Environmental Sciences

·         School of Dine Art and Music

·         School of Hospitality and Tourism Management

·         University of Guelph Humber

The University of Guelph offers students the advantages to continue their studies through joint graduate programs with other universities such as: Guelph Waterloo Centre for Chemistry and Biochemistry one of Canada’s largest and most successful graduate schools.  Guelph Waterloo Physics Institute offered by the Department of Physics at the University of Guelph and Waterloo as well as the Guelph Waterloo MA Programs in Public Issues Anthropology. Guelph McMaster Collaborative MA Program in Public Policy and Administration. Tri University Graduate History Program includes Waterloo, Guelph and Laurier.

The University's Research Park Centre.

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa was founded in 1848 as the Roman Catholic College of Bytown by Monseigneur Joseph-Bruno Guigues The college was originally for boys only and taught a classical liberal arts curriculum. Morning classes were taught in French and afternoon classes in English.
In 1861, the College of Bytown became the College of Ottawa and in 1866 the college received a Royal charter from London, England to become the University of Ottawa.
In 1919 Women began attending class

The University of Ottawa was restructured and made non-denominational in 1965. The Ontario legislature passed the University of Ottawa Act in 1965, making the university a provincially funded institution

One of the most special features of the University is in the total of student population, 69.4% of students use English and 30.6% use French as their primary language of communication in teaching and learning with the university. The university offers a French immersion study program that includes a French immersion designation on the student's diploma, as well as the option to obtain a Second Language Certificate in French. A Second Language Certificate can also be obtained in English.

The University has 9 faculties:

• Faculty of Law (Common Law and Droit Civil)
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Health Sciences
•  Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social Science
• Telfer School of Management

On-campus residences are situated in downtown Ottawa with a capacity to house over 3000 full-time students, Uof Ottawa has seven residence buildings:

• Four traditional-style buildings: Thompson, Stanton, Marchand, and Leblanc, the dormitory/apartment hybrid 90 University (opened in 2002)
• Two apartment-style buildings: Brooks and Hyman-Soloway (opened in 2005). At uOttawa all first year undergraduate students are guaranteed a place in residence.

Recently the university has been featured in national coverage criticizing the residence system, particularly cleaning and upkeep of housing from year to year

University of Windsor

The University of Windsor is located at the crossroads of North America, and facing one of Canada’s most beautiful waterfronts on the Detroit River. University of Windsor is known as an internationally oriented, multi-disciplined institution that actively encourages a broad diversity of students, faculty and staff. Those strengths create an awareness and appreciation of difference about the university — difference in ethnic backgrounds, difference in cultures and difference in dreams.

UWIndsor was found in 1963, and opened its Medical Education Building, which houses the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry – Windsor Program. As well, with the help of $40 million in Ontario government funding, the University will construct a new 300,000-square-foot, $112-million Centre for Engineering Innovation, a structure that will establish revolutionary design standards across Canada and beyond. The buildings are two of the touchstones for our tagline, Thinking Forward.

The University of Windsor has more than 16,000 full-time graduate and undergraduate students as they assume responsibility for their future and that of the world around them. And it gives them the fullest opportunity, encouragement and help to meet the challenge, and more. The University of Windsor has graduated more than 80,000 alumni since its founding. The school also has more than 1,500 international student from 70 countries in the world

Windsor offers more than 120 majors and minors and 55 master's and doctoral degree programs across nine faculties:

•  Faculty of Art and Social Science
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Graduate Studies
• Odette School of Business
• Faculty of Human Kinetics
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Nursing
• Faculty of Science

The University has six different residence halls across campus:

• Macdonald, Laurier and Cartier Halls are home to first-year undergraduate students
• Laurier Hall hosts alternating single-gender floors while Cartier and Macdonald Halls are entirely co-ed.
• Electa Hall is a co-ed building which houses upper year undergrads, graduate students and students in professional programs such as education and law.
• Clark Residence is another upper year residence, and is a collection of townhouse style apartments which include fully furnished kitchen facilities in each unit.
• Alumni Hall is suite-style residence, and is the only building on campus that houses upper year and first year students together.  

Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minster of Canada. Wilfrid Laurier main campus is located in Waterloo Ontario, Canada. Wilfrid Laurier also has campuses in Brantford, Kitchener, Toronto and a future proposed campus in Milton Ontario. Laurier offers students a full range of undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of fields. Laurier is one of the fastest growing universities in Canada. The city of Waterloo is home to both Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. Check out our previous post for more information  on University of Waterloo. The minimum entering average was 80.3% for arts, 80.8% for science, and 86.3% for business. Wilfrid Laurier University is internationally renowned Faculty of Music. It is considered one of the best in the country with programs in performance, music education, composition, music history, church music, theory and music therapy. If you are interested in music Wilfrid Laurier is a great University for students wur ho would like to enter in the music industry as it offers great opportunities to expand your passion and to become successful in  your particular field. The Laurier music faculty boasts two performance space in the Theatre Auditorium and the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall. This faculty attracts many great students from outside of Ontario than any other faculty at Laurier.  The music programs at Laurier allows students to have to opportunities to make their degree into Master Degree in Music Therapy and it only at Laurier which offers that great advancement.

Laurier Library
The library at Laurier holds about 1.8 million books and journals in hard copy or micoform, and provides access to over 6000 electronics reference tools and full text electronic journals. The Wilfrid Laurier University library is the member of the TriUniversity Group Libraries such as University of Waterloo, and University Of Guelph which gives students the advantages to get access to combined information collection in excess of 6 million print items is available.

Campuses
The faculties in Laurier offers a variety of different programs through its six faculties like Arts, Science, Education, Music, Social Work, and Laurier School of Business and Economics. The Kitchener Campus recently has been removed out of the Waterloo campus to downtown of Kitchener. (which is located on Duke St.) This will allow students to be closer to the community and social service agencies they partnered with. So if you are interested in working for Social worker this will benefits you the opportunity to get a part time as a social worker and gain valuable experiences while studying at the same time. For the Waterloo campuses it is located in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo.



Check out this video ! Students at Laurier share their stories at Wilfrid Laurier University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PATaBdtNJok

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.

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



McMaster Class room for Lectures

York University

York University is one of the largest university in Toronto which the main Campus is located in the North York Region at Keele and Steeles. The main campus has 457 acres and is home of more than 55,000 students in both full time and part time program. The university also has other campus at  Glendon (Bayview and Lawrence) with 85 arces, The Miles S. Nadal Management Centre, Schulich School of Business (King and Bay) and  Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development Centre (Dundas and Yonge)

The University has total 47,062 undergraduate students, 6,143 graduate students and 3,226 international students in both full ­and part- ­time programs. The University also has more than 1,400 full time faculty, 2,297 full-time support staff and 1000 contract faculty and teaching assistant

He university has totally 10 faculties, they are:

• Environmental Studies
• Education
• Fine Arts
• Glendon
• Graduate Studies
• Health
• Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
• Osgoode Hall Law School
• Schulich School of Business
• Science and Engineering

York's Libraries

York’s libraries are located in five buildings; 4 in the main campus and 1 in Gledon Campus

• Scott Library, housing Sound & Moving Image, Maps, Archives & Special Collections
• Peter F. Bronfman Business Library
• Steacie Science and Engineering Library
• Osgoode Hall Law School Library
• Leslie Frost Library on Glendon Campus

The University provides a wide range of resources including over 40,000 electronic journals, 300,000 ebooks, 2.5 million volumes, and signifi­cant collections in film, music, maps, archival materials and microforms.

Student Life

The intellectual, cultural and social life at York is one of the richest in Canada:

• Approximately 270 student clubs and organizations
• Sport York offers 19 interuniversity sport teams, 15 sport clubs, 44 intramural sport leagues, special events and 10 pick-up sport activities offered daily
• Student publications including the weekly newspaper, Excalibur, and the bi-weekly bilingual newspaper, Pro Tem
• Student broadcast outlets including Radio York, CHRY 105.5FM, and Radio Glendon, CKRG 800AM
• The Art Gallery of York University devotes itself to exhibitions of the most challenging forms and issues of contemporary art and the Glendon Gallery, the only fully bilingual gallery in Toronto, emphasizes francophone artistic expression
• The Student Centre houses over 45 student clubs and services including the Lee Wiggins Childcare Centre, a food court, art gallery, travel agent, student lounges and The Underground restaurant/club

How international students talk about York and their student life