University of alberta (UA), founded in 1908, is a world-renowned research university located in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta. He is a founding member of Canadian U 15 Research University Alliance, a member of World University Alliance and a member of World Energy University Alliance.
University of alberta is one of the largest research universities in Canada, and it is most famous in geoscience, petrochemistry, chemistry, business, agronomy, biomedicine and other disciplines. University of alberta alumni include16th Prime Minister of Canada, 3 Nobel Prize winners (including Horton, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine), 75 Rhodes scholars, 1 1 Chief Research Professor of Canada.
University of alberta's artificial intelligence major is in the leading position in the world, and the global computer science institutions rank 37th in the field of artificial intelligence in CSRankings20 10-2020, among which artificial intelligence and machine learning rank 6th in the world. Rich Sutton, the father of reinforcement learning, and David Silver and Aja Huang, the main authors of Alpha Go, are both from university of alberta.
University of alberta Business School is one of the well-known business schools in North America. Through AACSB 1968 certification, it has outstanding characteristics in the fields of international business, natural resources and energy management, business administration and so on. In the 20 19 ranking of world-class disciplines in soft science, the discipline of business administration ranks 38th in the world.