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UBC is one of the world’s great public universities. UBC was ranked 34th in the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2008, and for the past five years has been among the top 40 institutes in the world as ranked by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. For complete details, visit UBC Ranks in Global Top 40.
UBC’s campus is situated in Vancouver, on Canada’s West Coast. Vancouver is widely considered one of the most beautiful cities in North America. It is located on the edge of the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by mountains.
The densely populated Greater Vancouver region (which includes neighbouring municipalities) is over 2.2 million, just over half the population of the province of British Columbia.
The UBC Vancouver campus lies about 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver on the Point Grey peninsula. The 402 hectare campus contains world-class attractions such as the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and the Museum of Anthropology. The campus is surrounded by 763 hectares of forested park land.
The UBC Okanagan campus is located 20 minutes north of downtown Kelowna, in the beautiful Okanagan region of BC’s interior. The 260-acre campus is growing quickly, with two new student residence buildings and a large new student services centre under construction, and three major new academic buildings to be completed by 2011. UBC Robson Square is located in downtown Vancouver, on Robson Street between Hornby and Howe streets. Here in the heart of the city, UBC offers humanities courses, technology and management programs, as well as live performances and events.
The Great Northern Way campus occupies 6.6 hectares located at the False Creek flats in East Vancouver. UBC jointly occupies the campus with SFU, BCIT, and the Emily Carr Institute: it is intended to provide an integrated environment with training and education programs offered by each partner institution. Campus construction plans are currently being developed.
UBC enrolls students in 7 faculties at the Okanagan campus and in 12 faculties at Vancouver.
The recent arrival of Nobel laureate (and 2007 Oersted Medal winner) Carl Wieman highlights UBC’s commitment to fostering high quality instruction, building bridges between undergraduate education and research, and creating learning environments that both challenge and engage students.
| Undergraduate | Full-time |
24,044 |
| Part-time |
12,586 |
|
| Total |
36,630 |
|
| Graduate | Full-time |
7,331 |
| Part-time |
1,021 |
|
| Total |
8,352 |
|
| All Students |
44,982 |
| Undergraduate | Full-time |
3,659 |
| Part-time |
1,412 |
|
| Total |
5,071 |
|
| Graduate | Full-time |
190 |
| Part-time |
89 |
|
| Total |
288 |
|
| All Students |
5,350 |
| Undergraduate |
4,295 |
| Graduate |
2,108 |
| Total |
6,403 |
International students are those attending UBC on a student visa, work permit, or other visa, and do not include landed immigrants or refugees. They come to UBC from over 143 countries and comprise 12.6% of the total student population.
| United States |
808 |
| China |
740 |
| South Korea |
476 |
| Japan |
276 |
| Hong Kong |
140 |
| Indonesia |
152 |
| Mexico |
105 |
| U.K. |
133 |
| Taiwan |
112 |
| Malaysia |
100 |
| United States |
454 |
| China |
408 |
| India |
129 |
| Iran |
193 |
| Mexico |
89 |
| South Korea |
61 |
| Germany |
57 |
| U.K. |
51 |
| Japan |
50 |
| Saudi Arabia |
30 |
For students wishing to take part in exchange programs, UBC has exchange agreements in place with over 150 partner universities.
| Bachelor of Arts |
2147 |
| Bachelor of Science |
1276 |
| Bachelor of Commerce |
606 |
| Bachelor of Applied Science |
603 |
| Bachelor of Ed. (Elementary) |
415 |
| Bachelor of Ed. (Middle) |
32 |
| Bachelor of Ed. (Secondary) |
359 |
| Bachelor of Human Kinetics |
229 |
| Bachelor of Laws |
206 |
| Diploma in Accounting |
175 |
| Bachelor of Science in Nursing |
185 |
| Bachelor of Science (Pharmacy) |
125 |
| Other Undergraduate Degrees |
490 |
| Total |
6848 |
| Bachelor of Arts |
233 |
| Bachelor of Science in Nursing |
85 |
| Bachelor of Science |
79 |
| Bachelor of Education |
105 |
| Bachelor Social Work |
30 |
| Bachelor of Fine Arts |
30 |
| Total |
562 |
| Master of Science |
318 |
| Master of Arts |
252 |
| Doctor of Philosophy |
351 |
| Master of Education |
250 |
| Master of Business Administration |
139 |
| Other Graduate Degree |
756 |
| Total |
2,066 |
| Master of Science |
1 |
| Master of Arts |
3 |
| Master of Education |
16 |
| Total |
20 |
| Government grants and contracts |
$832,780,000 |
| Other grants / contracts / donations |
$136,364,000 |
| Investment income |
$50,370,000 |
| Student fees |
$302,573,000 |
| Sales, services and other |
$319,482,000 |
| Total all revenue |
$1,540,829,000 |
UBC’s total economic impact amounts to $6.3 billion in local income and over 39,700 jobs.
$3.6 billion results from the local UBC-educated workforce, $2.2 billion results from direct, indirect, and induced spending in the local economy, and another $500 million is generated by UBC-induced and spin-off companies.
| Companies formed (cumulative) |
130 |
| New patents filed |
173 |
| Active license agreements |
261 |
| License agreements completed |
32 |
| Invention disclosures |
171 |
| Technology licensing revenue |
$6.6 million |
UBC ranks in the top 10 universities in North America in commercializing research and for its patent activity in the Life Sciences. Between 1996 and 2006, UBC formed more spin-off companies per research dollar than MIT and Stanford.
UBC ranks 2nd in Canada in Fellowships of the Royal Society of Canada, in Steacie Fellows, and in Guggenheim Award recipients.
| Industry |
$41,200,000 |
| Government and other |
$428,200,000 |
| Total funding |
$469,400,000 |
| Industry |
9,22 |
| Government and other |
6,150 |
| Total funding |
7,072 |
| Faculty, research, and associated |
4,669 |
| Management and professional |
2,894 |
| Clerical, secretarial, and library assistants |
2,011 |
| Trades, services, and technical |
3,218 |
| Other staff |
830 |
| Total UBC faculty and staff |
13,622 |
In addition to the employees shown here, UBC also employs about 7,000 students annually in various part-time positions, including teaching and research assistants. Also employed on campus are several thousand non-UBC employees, including staff at University Hospital, TRIUMF, and numerous other affiliated organizations.
The UBC Library is the 2nd-largest research library in Canada. Its collection include 5.4 million volumes, 5.2 million microforms, more than 808,000 maps, audio, video and graphic materials and nearly 56,000 serial subscriptions. The library has more than 261,000 e-books, the largest biomedical collection in Western Canada, and the largest Asian-language collection in Canada.
Over 300 staff members work at more than 20 branches / divisions, including three branches at teaching hospitals, and at the Okanagan and Robson Square campuses.