Algoma University

Algoma University (AU) is a postsecondary institution in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, offering undergraduate university degrees in more than 30 academic programs. The student population has increased substantially in recent years and Algoma now has about 1200 students.

Algoma provides 30 plus programs - three and four year Bachelor's degrees in disciplines such as English, history, psychology, sociology, biology, business, computer science and fine arts. The Master of Computer Games Technology program if offered in conjunction with the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland.

Algonquin College

Algonquin College (French: Collège algonquin) is an English-language college of applied arts and technology in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The college serves Canada's National Capital Region. Funded by the Province of Ontario its main campus is in Ottawa, located at 1385 Woodroffe Avenue, near the intersection with Baseline Road. Across Woodroffe Avenue from the main campus is the Baseline Transitway Station. Algonquin College's other campuses are in Perth and Pembroke.

Brock University

Brock University, generally referred to simply as Brock, is a comprehensive university located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Brock offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs that include co-op and other experiential learning opportunities to an enrolment of over 17,000 full-time students.

Located at the center of Canada's Niagara Peninsula on the Niagara Escarpment in St. Catharines, Ontario, Brock University is the only Canadian university that is part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Many of the buildings on campus were designed by the innovative architectural firm, Moriyama & Teshima Architects.

The university is increasingly being recognized for its research, being placed among Canada's leading academic institutions. Research Infosource recently ranked Brock third among Canadian undergraduate research universities based on research publication output and impact indicators.

Brock's undergraduate and graduate degree programs are administered by 7 faculties. Brock also boasts one of the largest selections of co-op programs in Canada.

Carleton University

Carleton University is an international, comprehensive university located in Canada's capital of Ottawa, Ontario. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines, including public affairs, journalism, film studies, engineering, high technology, and international studies. More than 2 000 faculty members instruct some 23 000 students drawn from over 147 countries, studying for a Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctoral degree. Over the years it has gained a reputation due to its highly demanding and rare programs.

La Cité collégiale

La Cité collégiale is a French-language college of applied arts and technology located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's largest French-language college outside of Quebec. The college was created as an offshoot of Algonquin College when that school's French studies got too big for the college. Its main campus is in Ottawa, with satellite campuses in Hawkesbury and Cornwall.

Dominican University College

The Dominican University College (formerly the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology) is a bilingual Roman Catholic university in Ottawa, Ontario, offering civil and pontifical bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Philosophy and Theology. Its name in French is Collège Universitaire Dominicain.

University of Guelph

The University of Guelph, also known as U of G, is a medium-sized university located in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1964. While the U of G offers degrees in many different disciplines, the university is best known for its focus on life sciences, based in part on a long-standing history of achievement in Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine and within Canada for its School of Fine Art and Music.

In 2008, the University of Guelph was ranked by Maclean's magazine as the fourth-best comprehensive university in Canada ("comprehensive" indicating institutions with significant research activity and a range of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including professional degrees). It has held the top place in this ranking in 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007, with its reputation, innovative research-intensive programs, and lively campus life cited as particular strengths.

The University of Guelph offers over 90 majors in 13 degree programs and 63 Open Learning/Distance Education Opportunities. The University is home to 17,332 full-time and part-time undergraduate students, 2,076 full-time and part-time graduate students and almost 3000 faculty and staff. Over 99.8% of students entering the University of Guelph for the first time have academic averages of 75% and above. Guelph students also have the highest graduation rate among Canadian comprehensive universities (at 89%), 5.8% higher than the national average. As well, University of Guelph has been stated to be the most comprehensive university of Canada by Macleans magazine in 2006 and 2007.

Lakehead University

Lakehead University (LU) is located in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is the only university in Northwestern Ontario. Lakehead University attracts many students from across Canada as well as international students. Lakehead offers a broad range of degree and diploma programs within nine faculties. The diverse learning environment contributes to over 41,000 alumni in 67 different countries. The majority 50.8% of Lakehead students are from Northwestern Ontario. Out of province and international students account for 5.7% and 2.3% respectively. The remaining 41.2% come from other parts of Ontario. Lakehead is a small-medium size university with 80% of classes having less than 50 students and 50% of classes less than 25. In October 2006, Lakehead University was named 'Research University Of The Year' (Undergraduate Category) by Research Infosource, achieving No.1 rank for both research income growth in Canada, and research intensity in its category.

The university is made up of the following nine faculties: Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Forestry and the Forest Environment, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Science and Environmental Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities, Medicine, and Graduate Studies.

Laurentian University

Laurentian University (Université Laurentienne), founded in 1960, is a mid-sized bilingual university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. While LU's focus is primarily on undergraduate programming, the university also features Canada's newest medical school — opened in 2005, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, in consortium with Laurentian and Lakehead University, offers a significant number of graduate-level degrees for medical students. Laurentian is the largest bilingual provider of distance education in Canada.

McMaster University

McMaster University (Mac) is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian Senator and banker whose substantial bequeathed funds helped form the beginning of the university. The institution being incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1887. The university was originally located in Toronto and moved to its present home in Hamilton in 1930. Originally controlled by the Baptist Convention of Ontario it became a non-denominational private institution in 1957.

The university operates six academic faculties; Science, Health Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business with an enrollment of 20,600 full-time undergraduate students and 2,901 postgraduate students. The main campus is located on 300 acres (1.2 km2) of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens.

Nipissing University

Nipissing University is a small liberal arts university located in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, on a 720 acre (2.9 km²) farm site overlooking Lake Nipissing. The university's unique character is defined by its location in Northern Ontario, a large faculty of education program with one-third of the total student enrollment, and shared facilities with Canadore College.

Queen's University

Queen's University, generally referred to simply as Queen's, is a coeducational, non-sectarian, research intensive, public university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 2008, Queen's maintained its status as one of the top universities in Canada.

Queen's was ranked second in Canada in the Medical-Doctoral category of the Maclean's University Rankings (2008 edition) despite refusing to participate in the latest survey along with twenty-three other universities, over concerns with the data collection and analysis. Queen's also maintained the highest level of student retention and had the highest graduation rates out of any Canadian institution at 95.5%. Maclean's completed the survey using Access to Information requests, ranking Queen's below only McGill University. Additionally, Queen's was ranked 7th in Canada, alongside McMaster University, and 117th internationally by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in 2008. In 2007, Queen's University was ranked 88th in the world and 4th in Canada. In 2009, the Sustainable Endowments Institute awarded Queen's University a "B-" for its campus sustainability initiatives.

Royal Military College of Canada

The Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), is the military academy of the Canadian Forces, and is a degree-granting university. RMC is the only federal institution in Canada with degree granting powers. Located on Point Frederick, a 41-hectare peninsula in Kingston, Ontario, the college is a blend of older, historic buildings and modern academic, athletic, and dormitory facilities. Officer Cadets are trained in the four pillars of academics, military, athletics, and bilingualism (French and English).

The RMC mission is to educate, train and develop Officer Cadets for leadership careers of effective service in the Canadian Forces-Canadian Forces Air Command, Canadian Forces Maritime Command and Canadian Forces Land Force Command.

For most students, education is free and a monthly salary is paid which meets incidentals. The courses are offered both on site and by distance learning in both official languages: English and French.

Royal Conservatory of Music

The Royal Conservatory of Music, also known as The Royal Conservatory or RCM, provides music and arts education, evaluative standards, publishing and performance to people of all ages and stages across Canada and around the world in pursuit of its mission to develop human potential. The Royal Conservatory’s head office is located in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded by Edward Fisher in 1886 as The Toronto Conservatory of Music, and in 1947 George VI incorporated the Conservatory through royal charter. Notable alumni include Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall, world-renowned sopranos Measha Brueggergosman and Isabel Bayrakdarian, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Florence Minz is the current Chair of the Board and Dr Peter Simon is the President.

Trent University

Trent University is a liberal arts and science-oriented institution located along the Otonabee River in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The chancellor of Trent University is Dr. Roberta Bondar and Bonnie Patterson is the president and vice-chancellor.

The Symons campus of Trent is approximately 14.60 square kilometres, over half of which is a part of Trent's Nature Areas, an ecologically diverse wild-life preserve. It is divided into a series of colleges: Champlain, Lady Eaton, Catharine Parr Traill, Otonabee, Peter Gzowski, and Julian Blackburn. Each college has its own residence hall, dining room, and student government. The exception to this rule is Julian Blackburn, which is a non-residential college; Blackburn Hall is a purely administrative building with no residences, dining hall or classrooms. The campus plan and the original colleges were designed by the Canadian architect Ron Thom. A large portion of the main campus consists of land that was donated by GE Canada. This donation included a functioning hydroelectric power plant dating from the 1890s, and which still generates a substantial portion of the university's electricity; the power plant is being updated and a second generating plant being considered.

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is located in Oshawa, Ontario and shares its campus with Durham College. The university was founded in 2002 and accepted its first students in 2003, making it one of Canada's newest universities. All undergraduate programs require students to lease a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop PC from the university as a condition of enrollment, making it Ontario's only laptop-based university. Faculty also encourages students to use their laptops to complete assignments, perform laboratory research and interact with faculty during lectures. UOIT offers a range of undergraduate programs, and graduate programs in Science, Engineering, Health and Information Technology. The UOIT campus is approximately 400 acres (1.6 km2) in the northern part of Oshawa. Trent University also offers a small full-time program on the same campus and offers a number of elective courses to undergraduate students at UOIT.

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa or Université d'Ottawa in French (also known as uOttawa or nicknamed U of O or Ottawa U) is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada, and was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Formerly a liberal arts college, it has been teaching pure and applied sciences in both French and English since the 1800s. The university has been conferring Bachelor's degrees since 1872, Master's degrees since 1875, and Doctorates since 1888. Saint Paul University is federated with the university and is also located in the city of Ottawa.

The University of Ottawa's department of neurosciences is ranked 1st in Canada, and 2nd in clinical medicine, in citations per paper (highest impact) from 2000-2004 by Science Watch newsletter, published by Thomson Scientific in 2005, which uses university science indicators to examine the research of 46 Canadian universities in 21 different scientific fields.

University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff. The school is notable for being the first university in North America to create a Faculty of Mathematics, and for having the largest co-op program in the world. Waterloo maintains one of the lowest endowments of all large Canadian universities, something officials have been trying to improve over the last 10 years. The school is also known for having more company spin-offs than any other Canadian university, and as such, the university has been called the "Silicon Valley of the North". The enrollment for 2006 was 23,729 undergraduate and 3,013 graduate students, with 963 full-time faculty members and 2,167 staff. The school has approximately 130,000 alumni in 141 countries. The university press, @UW and The Boar (Arts Faculty) are members of CUP. Other university newspapers include the Imprint (General Student Newspaper), The Iron Warrior (Engineering), and the mathNEWS (Math).

University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario (known as Western or UWO) is a public research university located in London, Ontario. It is one of Canada's oldest universities, founded in 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth of Bishop's University and the Anglican Diocese of Huron as The Western University of London Ontario. Huron College, established in 1863 as an Anglican theological school, provided the basis for the new university. The University covers 395 acres (1.6 km²) of land on the north branch of the Thames River and the main campus consists of 75 buildings. The university also has extensive land holdings outside of the main campus.

Western is one of Canada's leading universities, ranked #1 in the 2008, 2007 and 2005 Globe and Mail University Report Card for overall quality of education. It ranked #3 among medical-doctoral level universities according to Maclean's Magazine 2005 University Rankings. In 2006, Western and many other universities refused to provide Maclean's with data due to concerns regarding the magazine's ranking methodology. In that year, it ranked #5 in the Medical-Doctoral category. Three of the four schools placed above Western in that year's ranking had also refused to participate. In the 2007 Maclean's rankings, Western dropped considerably to 7 out of 15 universities in the medical doctoral category.

Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, and Kitchener, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada.

Laurier offers a full range of undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of fields. Laurier is one of the fastest-growing universities in Canada (enrolment more than doubled from 1997 to 2006). The main campus is located in Waterloo, with satellite campuses in Brantford and Kitchener. The City of Waterloo is home to both Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.

University of Windsor

The University of Windsor is a non-denominational, provincially-supported, coeducational, public comprehensive university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of over 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students. It is a member of the National Conference of Canadian Universities and Colleges, the University Articulation Board of Ontario, the International Association of Universities, and the Association of the British Commonwealth. The University of Windsor has graduated more than 80,000 alumni since its founding. The university press, The Lance, is a member of CUP.