University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is the largest bilingual (English-French) university in the world. The university offers a wide variety of academic programs, administered by ten faculties: Arts, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, LawMedicine, Science, Social Sciences, and the Telfer School of Management.The University of Ottawa Library includes 12 branches, holding a collection of over 4.5 million titles. The university is a member of the Canadian U15 group of research-intensive universities, with a research income of CA$420 million in 2022.

The school is co-educational and enrols almost 40,000 undergraduate and over 6,000 post-graduate students. The school has enrolled 2,300 students into the French Immersion Studies program in fall 2022. The school has approximately 10,600 international students from 150 countries, accounting for 26 per cent of the student population. The university has a network of more than 195,000 alumni. The university's athletic teams are known as the Gee-Gees and are members of U Sports.

 

Facts and figures

Web https://www.uottawa.ca/en
Year Established 1848
Total Number of Staff 5000
Number of Academic Staff 1200
Number of Students 47000
Focus Areas

Creating a sustainable environment

  • Canadian environment
  • Emerging materials and nanotechnology
  • Sustainable development, regulation and education
  • Sustainable natural systems, infrastructure, technology and energy
  • Synthetic biology

Advancing just societies

  • Democratic governance, public policy and law
  • Human rights, migration, equality and social justice
  • Arts, culture and values
  • La Francophonie and bilingualism
  • Responsible management

Shaping the digital world

  • Quantum and photonics technology
  • Law, ethics, security and policy
  • Digital health, digital humanities and digital entrepreneurship
  • Learning in a digital age
  • Digital technology development and applied artificial intelligence

Enabling lifelong health and wellness

  • Reimagined health-care systems, practice-changing research and education
  • Genetics and systems biology of health and disease
  • Brain and mental health
  • Vascular and cardiovascular health
  • Regenerative medicine and innovative therapies
  • Infection, immunity and inflammation
Web link for international students https://www.uottawa.ca/study/international-students
Fields of Study Offered Basic/broad, general programmes
Teacher training and education science (broad programmes)
Arts (broad programmes)
Humanities (broad programmes)
Social and behavioural science (broad programmes)
Business and administration (broad programmes)
Law (broad programmes)
Biology and biochemistry
Environmental science
Physical science (broad programmes)
Mathematics and statistics (broad programmes)
Computer science
Engineering and engineering trades (broad programmes)
Medicine