University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007, harking back to the first applied science classes offered starting July 1, 1957, by the temporary “Waterloo College Associate Faculties.” Gerald Hagey (left), president of the Lutheran-affiliated Waterloo College, had enlisted support from business leaders in Kitchener-Waterloo, a modest industrial city in midwestern Ontario: they would create a program to train engineers and technicians who were desperately needed for Canada’s growing postwar economy.
The university, which adopted “UW” as its abbreviation and was beginning to make the name of Waterloo internationally known, developed in another distinctive direction as well. The University of St. Jerome’s College, founded in 1865 and flourishing in Kitchener as a Catholic liberal arts college, became “federated” with UW in 1959 and built its own miniature campus across Laurel Creek from the main university.
Courses Offered
- Undergraduate Programs
- Graduate Programs
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Environment
- Faulty of Mathematics
- University of Waterloo Faculty of Science
School s
- School of Accounting and Finance
- Balsillie School of International Affairs
- School of Social Work
- School of Architecture
- School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- School of Planning
- School of Optometry
- School of Pharmacy
Contact Details
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
+1 519 888 4567
Official Website: http://uwaterloo.ca/
