Ontario University: 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.