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University of Calgary
U of Calgary Coat of Arms
U of Calgary Coat of Arms
MottoMo Shùile Togam Suas (I will lift up my eyes)
TypePublic
Established1966
ChancellorWilliam J Warren
PresidentHarvey Philip Weingarten
Students28,228 total
Location
Calgary
,
Alberta
,
Canada
Campus Urban, 2.13 km²
MascotRex
Websitewww.ucalgary.ca

The University of Calgary is a public university located in the north-western quadrant of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University is composed of approximately 23,500 full time and 4,500 part time students, totalling to 28,000 students.

Academics

The University of Calgary offers over 100 programmes in post-secondary education awarding bachelors, masters, and doctorate (Ph.D.) degrees. The University campus has an area of 2.13 km² and hosts, in total, 16 faculties, 53 departments and more than 30 research institutes and centres. Several prominent faculties at the University are the Haskayne School of Business, the Schulich School of Engineering, a medical school (MD), a law school (LLB), and in 2007 a veterinary school. The full-time teaching staff at the University is made up of 1,917 people.

The university has 16 faculties (17 after the opening of the veterinary school in 2007):

Athletics

The university is represented in CanadaWest a division of Canadian Interuniversity Sport and in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference by the Calgary Dinos. The campus is the home of the Olympic Oval, a multi-purpose ice arena, site of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games acclaimed as the fastest ice in the world. It holds a 400m long track oval as well as a short track ice surface and a hockey rink. The campus also holds the Jack Simpson Gymnasium, father David Bauer Arena (2 ice hockey rinks) and McMahon Stadium home of the Dinos and the Calgary Stampeders. The dinos compete in 12 sports, Basketball, Cross-Country, Field Hockey, Football, Golf, Hockey, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Volleyball, Wrestling.

Media

  • Campus Newspaper - "OnCampus"
  • Student Newspaper - "The Gauntlet"
  • Campus Radio Station - CJSW
  • Campus Television - "NUTV"

Alumni

  • MacEwan Student Centre
    MacEwan Student Centre
  • The School motto on display
    The School motto on display
  • The Olympic Oval
    The Olympic Oval

See also

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