1, University of British Columbia.
University of British Columbia (UBC), located in Vancouver, Canada, was founded in 1908, formerly known as McGill University College in British Columbia, and gained independence in 19 15.
Canadian U 15 Research University Alliance, Pacific Rim University Alliance, Global University Advanced Research Alliance, Universitas 2 1 and association of commonwealth universities, including Vancouver Campus (general campus) and Okanagan Campus, are comprehensive research universities.
After more than one hundred years of rapid development, UBC has gradually become a comprehensive research university. UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, which has the largest cyclotron in the world? . In addition to Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Stuart Broussin Institute for Quantum Matter, UBC and Max Planck Institute jointly established the first Max Planck Institute in North America specializing in quantum materials.
By 2020, UBC has trained 8 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Canadian Prime Ministers, 22 winners of 3M Excellent Teaching Awards, 65 Olympic medal winners, 765,438+0 Rhodes scholars, 273 members of the Royal Society of Canada and many other alumni? . Three Canadian prime ministers have all received education in UBC, including kim campbell, the first female prime minister in Canada, and justin trudeau, the current prime minister.
UBC ranked 42nd in the academic ranking of world universities of 20021,37th in the world university in 2022, 46th in the QS of 2022, and 2022U American news? ; 2022 McLean magazine ranked third in Canadian medical and doctoral universities; Selected into the British government's "high potential talent visa program".
2. University of Victoria.
Victoria University is a multi-disciplinary comprehensive university. There are many schools and majors in universities, such as economics, education, engineering, law, human and social development, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and so on.
Victoria University is the second largest university in British Columbia to receive off-campus research grants and contract funds. She has established contact with 1 18 institutions in 27 countries, including 9 Asian countries. Victoria University is one of the top three universities in Canada's Cooperative Education Program.
Students in the project can alternate one semester of classes with one semester of work, gain degrees and work experience related to their knowledge, and lay a good foundation for finding an ideal job corresponding to their major after graduation.
In the academic year from 1998 to 1999, a total of 2,774 students in this school completed this project, of which 226 students completed their work semester in other overseas countries. Victoria University is the only university in Canada that offers "cooperative education" in law, health information science, coaching research and professional writing. It is worth mentioning that the biggest focus of "business cooperation" is in the Asia-Pacific region.
3. Simon Fraser University.
Number of libraries: 1200000 (books) /9725 (periodicals). Simon Fraser University is divided into three semesters: September, January and May. These courses are coordinated through teaching and counseling. For most subjects, two classes of teaching and one tutorial class are arranged every week to give students more opportunities for discussion.
In addition, the university implements the three-semester practical course (Co-op Program), which has the advantages that students have the opportunity to apply classroom theory to practice, increase their work experience and earn living expenses; However, they graduated one or two years later than students from other universities before taking such cooperative courses.
SFU has been rated as the best comprehensive university in Canada five times (1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2009) in Maclean magazine's annual university ranking list, and it is often one of the first choices for the magazine's national university evaluation.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, SFU has a radical reputation. In the first few years, professors discussing sensitive topics and sitting in school have caused instability. Although this trend has gradually weakened, SFU is still considered as a strong left-wing campus.
In 1960s, student activists even set off a "cultural revolution" and advocated the democracy of Canadian university management. 1967 in may, SFU university became the first university in Canada to allow students to join the Committee.
SFU's radical ideas enable it to create innovative and flexible courses. For example, 1968, SFU became the first institution in Canada to add EMBA courses for in-service managers; SFU is also the first Canadian institution to offer a master's degree in sociology.