The University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university with its main campus at Point Grey on the western edge of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was established by provincial legislation in 1908 and opened in 1915, taking over the programs of McGill University College of British Columbia. The Vancouver campus covers about 400 hectares next to Pacific Spirit Regional Park on Musqueam territory. A second campus, UBC Okanagan in Kelowna, opened in 2005.

Its faculties include Applied Science, Arts, Science, Medicine, Education, Forestry, Land and Food Systems, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, along with the Sauder School of Business, the Peter A. Allard School of Law and a Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. It is best known for forestry, ecology, earth and ocean sciences, medicine, computer science and Asian studies. TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator center, sits on the Vancouver campus, as do the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and the Museum of Anthropology.

UBC enrolls about 70,000 students across its two campuses, including more than 10,000 graduate students in Vancouver. About a third of students are international, coming from more than 150 countries. Nobel laureates on its faculty and among its alumni include Michael Smith, Carl Wieman and Robert Mundell. Its alumni also include three Canadian prime ministers: John Turner, Kim Campbell and Justin Trudeau.

Graduate students work toward research master's degrees (MA, MSc, MASc), PhDs, and professional degrees such as the MBA and MEng. Doctoral students are supervised by individual faculty members and funded through the Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, research assistantships and external awards. The academic year runs as a Winter Session from September to April plus a Summer Session. Graduate housing is available on campus, and downtown Vancouver is about 30 minutes away by bus.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, The University of British Columbia lists 108 graduate programs across 45 subjects: 73 master's programs and 33 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, agriculture, food & forestry and psychology. The University of British Columbia holds rank 48 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.