University of British Columbia
| University of British Columbia | |
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| motto | Tuum est (it's yours) |
| founding | 1908 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place |
Vancouver , BC , Canada Branch Offices: Kelowna
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| president | Santa J. Ono |
| Students | 61.113 |
| Networks | APRU , AUCC , CARL , Universitas 21 , U15 , CWUAA |
| Website | www.ubc.ca |
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a renowned, public university in the Canadian province of British Columbia . 61,113 students are enrolled at the university. Leiden University (CWTS Leiden Ranking 2016) places UBC in 22nd place in its global ranking. In the humanities and social sciences, UBC ranks 17th among the universities with the strongest influence. The British newspaper The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the university among the top 200 universities in the world in its annual university ranking, The Times Higher World University Rankings 2011 . In 2011 the university reached 22nd place. This makes it the second best university in Canada after the University of Toronto .
location
The main campus is located on Point Gray in the University Endowment Lands , an unincorporated area just west of the city of Vancouver . The university has additional facilities at three locations in the city of Vancouver itself; the campus at Vancouver General Hospital , UBC Robson Square in downtown and the campus on the Great Northern Way. Another campus, UBC Okanagan, is located in Kelowna .
Departments
The university has the following departments:
- Faculty of Applied Science (includes engineering, architecture, natural sciences)
- Faculty of Arts (includes anthropology, linguistics and cultural studies)
- Sauder School of Business (includes economics and law)
- Faculty of Medicine (Medical Sciences)
- Faculty of Education (Pedagogical Sciences)
- Faculty of Forestry
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The university also has the following colleges:
- College of Health Disciplines
- College for Interdisciplinary Studies
Organization and institutes
The 15th President of the University has been Santa J. Ono , previously President of the University of Cincinnati , since August 15, 2016 . In 2009, UBC had 3,694 full-time faculty and 9,727 other full-time employees. By 2016 the number had risen to a total of 15,190. UBC is one of two Canadian universities (alongside McGill University in Montreal ) that is part of the Universitas 21 university network . The University of British Columbia Library is Canada's second largest research library with more than 6.3 million books and magazines, 5.3 million microfilms and millions of other formats. TRIUMF , the largest cyclotron in the world, is also located on the university campus.
Graduate school
Postgraduate courses (PhD, MA / MSc) are administered at the University of British Columbia by the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Vancouver) or the College of Graduate Studies (Okanagan) in cooperation with the individual faculties and programs. What is special about the UBC is that, in research-based programs, no distinction is made between the level of tuition fees for international and Canadian students, as is otherwise common worldwide. Instead, the tuition fees are relatively affordable compared to other Anglo-American / Commonwealth countries.
Well-known lecturers
(Selection)
- Kenelm Burridge , anthropologist
- Meryn Cadell , performance artist
- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas , international lawyer, historian and writer
- Hans Georg Dehmelt , physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Steven Galloway , writer
- Leona Gom , writer and university professor
- Michael Ignatieff , politician
- Daniel Kahneman , psychologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Har Gobind Khorana , molecular biologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Shoshichi Kobayashi , mathematician (differential geometry)
- Philippe Kruchten , computer scientist
- Beverley McLachlin , Judge and Lawyer
- George McWhirter , Canadian writer, translator and professor of Northern Irish descent
- Richard J. Pearson , archaeologist
- Josef Martin Penninger, Austrian geneticist
- Nick Pippenger , theoretical computer science
- Robin Ridington , anthropologist
- Jane Rule , author
- Jacqueline Samuda , actress and author
- Thomas Schneider , Egyptologist
- Carol Shields , writer
- Michael Smith , chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- David Suzuki , genetic researcher
- Warren Tallman , literary scholar
- Audrey Thomas , writer and university professor
- Bill Unruh , physicist
- Rudolf Vrba , pharmacologist
- Ian Watt , literary critic and literary historian
- Edgar Wickberg (1927–2008), American historian with a focus on China and Chinese congregations abroad
- Carl E. Wieman , physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Well-known graduates
(Selection)
- Carol Bolt (1941-2000), Canadian playwright
- Peter Borwein (* 1953), Canadian mathematician
- Kim Campbell (* 1947), Canadian politician and first Canadian Prime Minister
- Raffi Cavoukian (* 1948), singer and composer for children's songs
- Justin Chatwin (* 1982), Canadian actor
- Anne Chislett (* 1942), Canadian author
- Patricia Churchland (* 1943), Canadian philosopher
- Frank Davey (* 1940), Canadian poet, writer and former university professor
- Ujjal Dosanjh (* 1947), Canadian-Indian lawyer and politician
- Robert C. Feenstra (* 1956), American economist
- William Gibson (* 1948), American author
- Charles Lillard (1944–1997), Canadian poet and historian
- Evangeline Lilly (* 1979), Canadian actress
- Alexina Louie (* 1949), Canadian composer
- Daphne Marlatt (* 1942), Canadian writer and feminist
- Suleka Mathew , Indian-Canadian actress
- Barry McKinnon (born 1944), Canadian poet
- Beverley McLachlin (born 1943), Canadian lawyer and President of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Robert Mundell (* 1932), Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Stan Persky (* 1941), Canadian writer, media commentator and university lecturer
- Eva Maria Roer (* 1944), German entrepreneur
- Beat Sterchi (* 1949), Swiss writer
- Madeleine Thien (* 1974), Chinese-Malay-born Canadian writer
- Justin Trudeau (* 1971), politician and leader of the Liberal Party
- Deborah Kara Unger (born 1966), Canadian actress
- Fred Wah (* 1939), Canadian poet, writer and former university professor
- Jeff Wall (* 1946), Canadian photo artist
- David Ricardo Williams (1923–1999), Canadian lawyer, historian and writer
- Kareen Zebroff (* 1941), Canadian yoga teacher of German origin
Web links
- University of British Columbia ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- University of British Columbia (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://president.ubc.ca/
- ↑ UBC: UBC Overview And Facts 2015/16 . Retrieved February 7, 2017.
- ↑ Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS): CWTS Leiden Ranking 2016. Accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS): CWTS Leiden Ranking 2016. Accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ^ The Times Higher Education Supplement: The World University Rankings 2011/12 ( Memento of September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved June 29, 2012.
- ↑ UBC: Dr. Santa Ono to become UBC President and Vice Chancellor . Retrieved February 7, 2017.
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '55 " N , 123 ° 15' 2" W.