McMaster University
| McMaster University | |
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| motto |
τα παντα εν χριστωι συνεστηκεν
"All things cohere in Christ" |
| founding | 1887 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place |
Hamilton , ( Canada )
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| president | Patrick Deane |
| Students | 26,000 |
| Employee | 1173 research assistants |
| Annual budget | $ 460.7 million |
| Networks | IAU , U15 , CARL , OUA |
| Website | www.mcmaster.ca |
The McMaster University is a medium-sized State University in Hamilton , Canada. In 2010, 22,852 students in bachelor degree programs and 3,588 Master students had enrolled .
McMaster emerged from a Baptist - College in Toronto and was named after William McMaster named, which significantly contributed to the financing of the college.
Departments
McMaster (or "Mac") is divided into six faculties:
- Natural sciences
- medicine
- technology
- Humanities
- Social sciences
- Economics
The campus extends over 1.2 km² in the Westdale district next to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens. The university has its own art museum, the McMaster Museum of Art .
Personalities
Many graduates are successful actors, including Martin Short , Eugene Levy , Ivan Reitman, and Tihomir Orešković . There has long been a debate as to whether the film Animal House was inspired by Reitman's stay in the Whidden Hall dorm there during the student riots in the 1960s.
In the early 1990s, David Sackett's group at McMaster University, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, developed evidence-based medicine .
Bertram Brockhouse , 1994 Nobel Prize laureate in physics , did research here and the future writer Matt Cohen taught here in the late 1960s.
Henry Giroux has taught here since 2004 .
evaluation
According to the Times Higher Education Supplement, McMaster is one of the top hundred universities worldwide; a ranking by Jiaotong University in Shanghai placed them 80th worldwide and 3rd in Canada.
Sports
The McMaster Marauders compete in various sports in the Ontario University Athletics leagues within the Canadian Interuniversity Sport .
See also
Web links
- Official website (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ https://president.mcmaster.ca/
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed July 24, 2019 .
Coordinates: 43 ° 15 ′ 45 ″ N , 79 ° 55 ′ 20 ″ W.