McMaster University

McMaster University is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario. It was founded in 1887 in Toronto with a bequest from Senator William McMaster and moved to Hamilton in 1930. The main campus sits in the Westdale neighborhood; health sciences are based at the McMaster University Medical Centre with Hamilton Health Sciences.

Faculties cover Health Sciences, Engineering, Science, Social Sciences, Humanities, and the DeGroote School of Business. The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine introduced problem-based medical education in 1969. The McMaster Nuclear Reactor, opened in 1959, was the first university reactor in the Commonwealth. Graduate students also work through the Population Health Research Institute and hospital-based institutes in cardiology and respiratory medicine.

About 37,000 students are enrolled, including roughly 5,000 graduate students, with international students around one-fifth of the total and coming from more than 100 countries. Physicist Donna Strickland earned her engineering degree here before sharing the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. Economist Myron Scholes, a Nobel laureate in economics, completed his bachelor's degree at McMaster. Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel laureate in physics, served on the faculty.

Graduate programs include thesis and course-based master's degrees, the M.D., and the Ph.D. Medicine uses tutorial-based problem learning and clerkships in Hamilton hospitals. Research students are typically funded through supervisor grants and Canadian tri-council scholarships. Hamilton is a mid-sized industrial city at the western end of Lake Ontario, with students living on campus or in Westdale and downtown.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, McMaster University lists 45 graduate programs across 26 subjects: 31 master's programs and 13 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, computer science and earth & environmental sciences. McMaster University holds rank 112 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.