Washington University in St. Louis, University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, etc. McMaster University is a first-class university in the United States, and other first-class universities in the United States include Washington University in St. Louis, University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University and so on. So McMaster University is equivalent to Washington University in St. Louis, University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. McMaster University was founded in 1887 and is located in Hamilton, a tourist city in Ontario, Canada. It was established after Canadian Senator William McMaster donated 900,000 Canadian dollars.