University of Calgary

The Université of Calgary is a Université located at Calgary, in Alberta. It was founded in 1966 and counts a full number of 28.000 students.

Academic portrait

The University of Calgary roughly counts 23.500 full-time and 4.500 part-time. It includes/understands more than 30 research institutes, 53 departments and 17 faculties, of which the medical school , the faculty of Droit, the '' Haskayne School off Business '', the '' Schulich School off Engineering '' and, in 2007, the faculty of Veterinary medicine.

Programs

The University of Calgary proposes more than 100 programs of higher learning and decrees license S, Master S and Doctorat S (Ph.D). The campus of the University to a surface of 2,13 km ² and lodges, on the whole, 16 faculties, 53 departments and more than 30 centers and research institutes. The most famous faculties are the Haskayne School off Business , the Schulich School off Engineering , the medical school (MANDELEVIUM), the law school (LLB), and the school veterinary surgeon which will open its doors in 2008. The University of Calgary employs on the whole, 1917 full-time people.

Univerdité has 16 faculties (17 with the school of veterinary surgeon):

Faculty of Communication and Culture
Éducation off continues
Faculté of Education
Faculté of Design Environmental
Faculté of the Art schools
Faculté Graduate Studies
Haskayne School off Business
Faculté of Letters
Faculté of Kinesiologie
Faculty of Law
Faculty de Médicine
Faculté of Infirmary
Schulich School off Engineering
Faculty of Science
Faculté of Social sciences
Faculté of Social work
Medical college Veterinary surgeon

Classification

The University of Calgary is classified between the 151e and the 200e row in the Academic Ranking off World Universities of the Université Jiao Tong of Shanghai. The latter gives him a regional row (American continent) of 76-98. It is the sixth Canadian university.

Webometrics University Rankings class the University of Calgary in 56e place on the continent of North America and 62e in the world. It is classified 5th in Canada by this classification.

Research Infosource which classifies the first 50 research centres in Canada, places the University of Calgary in 7th position.

Sporting infrastructures

The university is represented in CanadaWest a division of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport and in the Athletic Conference of the Colleges of Alberta by the Calgary Dinos. The campus habrite a ring olypic, the Olympic Oval, a multidisciplinary skating rink which accommodated the Olympic Games of 1988 and which is famous to be " fastest with the monde". It has an oval track of 400m length track, as well as a track of shorts track and a ground of hockey. The campus lodges also the Jack Simpson Gymnasium, the father David Bauer Arena (2 grounds of hockey) and McMahon Stadium, residence of Dinos and Calgary Stampeders. Dinos are implied in 12 sports: Basketball, Cross-country race, Field hockey, American football, Golf, Hockey, Football, Swimming, Tennis, Athletics, Volley ball, and Fight.

Residences

The residences on the campus can lodge to 1500 students, distributed on eight buildings, whose names come from mounts in the Rocheuses. The two buildings " traditionnels" on the campus are Rundle Hall and Kananaskis Hall, they were built in the years 1960, when the University moved in on the campus. Five more recent buildings were built since Glacier, Olympus, Norquay, Brewster, and Castle Halls built before the Winter Olympics of 1988 as a Olympic village, for the occasion. However, each one of these buildings are much smaller than the traditional residences, having only one or two stages (with between 10 and 30 students by stages). The most recent building, Cascade Hall, are very different from the other residences as for its design, cash five stages, which makes of it the third larger residence, its stages are much vaster. Put besides this difference, the six last residences were designed on the d'" type; appartements" with a principal corridor leading to apartments of 4 people maximum. That contrasts with the traditional residences built around three separated corridors, each one connecting of the rooms of 2 people maximum, with a room common to the center of each stage.

A new building, named International House is currently designed to accommodate 200 additional international students, but also of the professors and the congresses. This building is constuit thanks to a program of the University equipped with CAD$1.5 million dollar of capital, and envisages to accommodate its first students in September 2008.

Famous graduates

Stephen To grip, M.A. in economy, 1991. Prime Minister of Canada since 2006.
James Gosling, inventor of the Computer programming language Java.
Robert Thirsk, astronaut of the Canadian Space agency and NASA, for the program of ISS.

See too

List of the universities of Canada

External bond

Official site

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