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University of Waterloo



200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
The University of Waterloo has long been recognized as the most innovative university in Canada. Like other universities, University of Waterloo is committed to advancing learning and knowledge through teaching, research, and scholarship. This Canada College fulfills this commitment through teaching, research, and scholarship in six faculties: Applied Health Sciences, Arts, engineering, Environmental Studies, Mathematics, and Science, and in our federated university and affiliated colleges: St. Jerome's University, Conrad Grebel University College, Renison College, and St. Paul's United College. The faculty at the University of Waterloo is also home base to five professional schools: Accountancy, Architecture, Computer Science, Optometry, and Planning. A sixth, the School of Pharmacy, will open in 2007, anchoring a new Kitchener health sciences campus that will include a satellite of McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote school of medicine.

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The University of Waterloo has the largest post-secondary co-operative education program in the world, and our students graduate with the knowledge, skills, and practical experience required to solve today's complex and pressing problems and to embrace future challenges. Every year, Maclean's magazine measures the reputation of each Canada university by soliciting the opinions of high-school guidance counselors, university officials, heads of a wide variety of national and regional organizations, and CEOs and recruiters at large and small corporations. For 13 of the past 14 years, Waterloo has been ranked most innovative university among 47 universities across the country. In 2005, for the second year in a row, we also ranked best overall. Waterloo leads comprehensive universities -- those with significant research and graduate programs as well as undergraduate programs, but without medical schools -- in the categories of student retention, percentage of students who win national academic awards, classes taught by tenured faculty, awards per full-time faculty, and alumni support. In 2005, more than 95 percent of Waterloo co-op students found co-op employment. More than 50 percent of the University of Waterloo undergraduate students are enrolled in co-op programs. On a typical day during the main interview period, more than 100 employers are on campus interviewing students at this Canada college in the William M. Tatham Centre for Co-operative Education and Career Services.

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