University of Calgary - Founded in
1906, U of C is a leading Canadian research
university located in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
University of Calgary
The University of Calgary
was established in 1906 as the Calgary teacher-training college. In 1945
the college became a branch of the University of Alberta. In 1966 it
became a fully autonomous degree-granting
institution known as the U of C (University of Calgary).
The University of Calgary
offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Programs are offered
in many areas, including arts, fine arts, science, commerce,
engineering, education, nursing, medicine, environmental design, law,
kinesiology, social sciences, graduate studies, and continuing
education.
The university is a major
research center, housing 16 facilities, 53 departments and more than 30
research institutes and centres. These include the Arctic Institute of
North America, established in 1945 by the Canadian government and the
Knowledge Science Institute.
The university also housed
the one of the largest in the world Nickle Art Museum. In 1988 many of
the university sports facilities were used for the Winter Olympic Games
held in Calgary. These facilities include the one of the biggest covered
speed skating rink in North America.
About 26 000
undergraduate and graduate students including about 1000 international
students from 85 countries study at the U of C each year. In 2004, there were 27,928
full-time and part-time students. In 2005,
University of Calgary intends to graduate its 100,000th alumni.
Alumni of the university
include Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk and also James Gosling, one of the creators of the
computer software program Java.
The University of Calgary
is Calgary's fourth largest employer.
For the year 2004, the U
of C employed about 2,500 full-time and part-time academic faculty.
