University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a public research university in Edmonton, Canada, founded in 1908. It is a comprehensive provincial university and a member of Canada's U15 group of research universities. The main North Campus lies along the North Saskatchewan River; other sites include Campus Saint-Jean, a French-language campus in Edmonton, and Augustana Campus in Camrose.

Faculties include Arts, Science, Engineering, Medicine and Dentistry, Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, the Alberta School of Business, Law, Education, and Rehabilitation Medicine. Graduate students work with units such as the National Institute for Nanotechnology and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Strengths include energy and petroleum engineering, agriculture and forestry, medicine, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence.

Enrollment is about 40,000 students, including roughly 8,000 graduate students. International students make up more than 20 percent of enrollment and come from more than 150 countries. Faculty number several thousand. Physicist Richard E. Taylor, a Nobel laureate, studied at Alberta; other alumni include former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed.

Graduate study includes thesis-based M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, course-based master's degrees, and professional programs in law, business, and medicine. Supervision follows a departmental model with a supervisory committee for research degrees. The calendar is the semester system, with a September start. Doctoral students are often funded through assistantships and fellowships. Edmonton is a northern prairie city with a long winter, a large campus, and energy-sector and hospital placements.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Alberta lists 48 graduate programs across 28 subjects: 30 master's programs and 15 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, statistics and chemical engineering. University of Alberta holds rank 107 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.