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University of Waterloo
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Chinese name: University of Waterloo
foreign language name: University of Waterloo
School time: 1957
School Type: Public University
school property: Canada U15 Alliance of Research Universities members
President: Fiji Dan Handulap
Location: Ontario, Canada
School motto: Concordia cum veritate (In Harmony with Truth)
Main departments: School of Medical Sciences, School of Liberal Arts, School of Mathematics, School of Engineering, School of Science, School of Environment
Main awards : ACM international Collegiate programming contest winner
famous alumni: Rasmus Lerdorf, Mike Lazaridis, Liu Hsuan-hsuan, vitalik buterin
school web site: http: //uwaterloo.ca
school introduction
University of Waterloo is A top public university in Canada, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Dr. Gerry Haag and Ella Wan Needles. The school has a high reputation, especially as the first university in North America to be accredited to establish a mathematics department, and has the largest cooperative education program in the world. There are six colleges in the University of Waterloo. The school has awarded more than 100 undergraduate degree majors, 28 master and doctoral degree majors. The University of Waterloo is well-known for subjects such as mathematics, computers, and engineering sciences. The school's representative team has won the ACM International College Student Programming Competition many times.
The University of Waterloo is a well-known comprehensive public university with complete teaching facilities, advanced scientific research equipment and strong academic strength. There are schools of liberal arts, sciences, engineering, mathematics, environment, and applied health sciences. In addition, the University of Waterloo is the first institution in Canada to offer Co-operative education courses. Through this course, students can get both learning and internship opportunities in the subjects they study.
The University of Waterloo has a strong scientific and technological atmosphere. Lazaridis, one of the founders of BlackBerry, once attended the school, and its graduates are also popular with technology companies. Bill Gates, the former chairman of Microsoft Corporation, visited the University of Waterloo in the fall of 2005. In his speech, he mentioned that the University of Waterloo is one of the schools that Microsoft recruits the most graduates. According to the school rankings made by Google employees in 2018, the University of Waterloo is ranked 13th in the world, and Tsinghua University is 14th.
school ranking
2020 QS World University Rankings ranked 173rd in the world.
Ranked 201-250 in the world in the 2020 THE Times World University Rankings.
Ranked 217th in the world in the 2020 USNEWS World University Rankings.
The 2019 Shanghai Jiaotong University ARWU World University Rankings ranked 151-200 in the world.
The University of Waterloo is a well-known comprehensive public university with complete teaching facilities, advanced scientific research equipment and strong academic strength.
consists of the College of Liberal Arts, Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Environment, and Applied Health Sciences.
The University of Waterloo has the only number college in North America, which is also the world's largest mathematics and computer education and research center.
At the same time, in North America, the school was the first institution to adopt computer teaching, and the computer science of this university is also very famous throughout North America.His university is hard to beat in the field of computer science. In addition, the School of Engineering at the University of Waterloo has the best software engineering, electronic engineering and mechanical engineering majors in Canada.
school environment
The University of Waterloo is located in Waterloo, Ontario, the richest Great Lakes region in Canada. It is only 1 hour drive from Toronto and 1.5 hours drive from Niagara Falls. Waterloo is a safe, friendly and clean medium-sized city, which provides students with a good learning and living environment. Waterloo has a diverse industrial structure, including educational institutions, high-tech companies, insurance companies, and manufacturing companies. At the same time, it has the best restaurants, shopping malls, art galleries and entertainment venues in southwestern Ontario. The University of Waterloo is a 5-minute bike ride and a 15-minute walk from the center of Waterloo.
Features of the school
★ Ranked among the top three comprehensive universities for ten consecutive years in the Canadian Macleans Magazine rankings
★ National popularity ranking first for seven consecutive years
★ CO-OP ranked first in the number of paid internship majors
★ Graduation The employment rate of students is the highest, and you can find jobs after graduation.
★ Computer, mathematics, accounting, and engineering are well-known in the world
★ Mathematics is mostly combined with business, and has strong application. -op cooperative education bachelor's degree is five years .
The school has the following academies and independent teaching and research units:
School of Medical Sciences:
Health Research, Kinesiology, Entertainment and Business, Entertainment and Leisure Research, Recreation Therapy
College of Literature:
Accounting and Financial Management, Anthropology, Art And affairs, historical research, computing and financial management, cultural management, digital art communication, drama, economics, English (literature, literature and rhetoric, rhetoric and expert writing), French, French education, geography, German, history, human resource management , Language Institute, Independent Studies, Latin, Medieval Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian, Religious Slavic Studies, Social Development Studies, Sociology, Spanish, Women’s Studies
School of Mathematics:
Actuarial Science, Applied Mathematics, Biotechnology, Business Administration and Mathematics Double Degree, Business Administration and Computer Science Double Degree, Combinatorial Mathematics and Optimization, Computational Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer and Financial Management, Physics, Mathematics (Business Administration), Mathematics (Accounting), Mathematics (Financial Analysis and Risk Management), Mathematics Education, Operations Research, Pure Numbers, Software Engineering, Statistics
School of Engineering:
Architecture, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering , Geological Engineering, Management Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Mechanical Engineering, Nano Engineering, Software Engineering, System Design Engineering
School of Science:
Department of Botany, Department of Chemistry, Department of Biology, Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Physics
School of Environmental Sciences:
Environment and enterprise, environment and resources research, geography and aviation, geography, international development, urban and regional planning
teaching and research unit (not affiliated to any college):
pharmacy, ophthalmology, social work
lu university number of professional level 4z
z0 Is the world’s largest mathematics and computer science educationAnd one of the research centers. Its high standards of education and research have won a world-class reputation. Computers, mathematics, accounting, and engineering are well-known in the world. Mathematics is mostly combined with business and has strong applications. The most distinctive education program of Hua University is the first "Cooperative Education Program". Cooperative education refers to a method in which universities and some units in society cooperate to train and educate talents. The cooperative education plan stipulates that students alternate full-time work (work related to the learning content) and study at the workplace and campus at regular intervals (usually a semester). This idea was first proposed in 1906 by Professor Herman Schneider from the School of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.Sliding nature, which is famous for computers, is the most distinctive in scientific research in computers and related disciplines. As a leader in the design and development of Canadian computer software, Hua University has developed a series of internationally renowned software, such as WATFOR, WATFIV, WATBOL, SPARSPARK and MAPLE educational software. Teachers from the Institute of Computer Science and the Department of Computer Science set up a center to use computers to help build a database of 20 volumes of 570 million words in the Oxford English Dictionary, and store all of Shakespeare’s works on the computer.
The University of Waterloo has Canada’s largest engineering school, North America’s largest actuarial course, the world’s most concentrated quantitative information research center, Canada’s most cited psychology department, the world’s first kinesiology department, and Canada’s only English-teaching optometry school , The world's largest higher education convergence and cooperation project.
has been selected as the most innovative 20 times in all Canadian university rankings, 18 times as the overall best, and 14 times as the leader of tomorrow, according to the reputation rankings of McCullin magazine. A total of 4450 bachelor's degrees, 1276 master's degrees and 237 doctoral degrees were awarded in 2010. Graduates with knowledge, skills and practical experience can deal with the complex and pressing problems of today's world and face unknown challenges.
Chartered Accountancy is the most famous among many business majors in Canada, and it is the fastest and highest pass rate major in Canada.
Bill Gates, former chairman of Microsoft Corporation, visited the University of Waterloo in the fall of 2005 and gave a lecture. The University of Waterloo was also the only university he visited in Canada. In his speech, Bill Gates mentioned that the University of Waterloo used to be the university where Microsoft hired the most graduates in the world.
innovative spirit
The University of Waterloo is world-renowned for its innovative spirit and excellent academic background, especially in the field of science and technology, of which computer science is the most famous, and it is the first university in Canada to provide computer degrees to students. At the same time, the school has the world's largest mathematics college, and the liberal arts college is the school's largest college. Most students have the opportunity to participate in social practice.
computer system
sliding library has a huge computer system, including WATMARS, an online search system (WATCAT), CD Rom database and other computer networks. WATMARS is the "Online Retrieval System of Huada Library", which can perform computer on-line retrieval of all the collections of Huada and its affiliated colleges, and users outside the school can directly search as long as they have a terminal and modulator. CD Rom database provides users with software and databases for psychology, sociology, medicine, computer, library science and other disciplines, which greatly facilitates the teaching and research of these disciplines. The microcomputer center of
University allows teachers and students to try out the latest microcomputers. The center also consults on the selection of hardware and software, and tries to help teachers and students purchase computer equipment and software at low prices. At the same time, the university also offers free short-term workshops on computers.
In the campus of the University of China, various computer facilities are widely distributed. Some large IBM mainframes are used for teaching, scientific research and administrative management. Powerful medium-sized computer systems such as DEC and SUN are used for complex calculations and graphics processing. In addition, teachers, students and staffYou can also use the networked PC and MAC separately.
college application
domestic college student application:
TOEFL: 90 (spoken, writing: 25)
IELTS: 7.0 PTE: 63 The school recognizes the domestic college entrance examination results
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zzz3 application materials: 5zzzzz3 (1) OUAC105 application form
(2) TOEFL/IELTS
(3) SAT or ACT
(4) Recommendation letter, Essay
(5) High school enrollment certificate or high school graduation certificate
(6) High school transcript, translation is required, notarization is recommended
(7) Proof of Funds
Preparatory Student Application:
TOEFL: 90 (Spoken, Writing: 25)
IELTS: 7.0 PTE: 63
Application Steps: Preparatory students need to apply through OUAC101, and the school will submit the student information and results to Waterloo the University. The
information mainly includes the first semester midterm and final grades of grade12, and the second semester midterm results. (Note: Different majors require different average grades. For specific requirements, you can go to the school’s official website for details.)
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