University of Alberta

University of Alberta (also known as the U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The company was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, Alberta's first prime minister, and Henry Marshall Tory, the first president. legislation allows is the Post-secondary Learning Act.

The university consists of four campuses in Edmonton, Alberta, Augustana Campus in Camrose, and center staff in downtown Calgary. The original north campus consists of 150 buildings covering 50 city blocks on the southern bank of the North Saskatchewan River valley, across from downtown Edmonton. 39,000 students from Canada and 150 other countries participated in 400 programs in 18 faculties :

• Faculty of Agriculture,
• Alberta School of Business,
• Faculty of Arts,
• Augustana Campus,
• Campus Saint-Jean,
• Faculty of Education,
• Faculty of Engineering,
• Faculty of Extension,
• Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research,
• Faculty of Law,
• Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry,
• Faculty of Native Studies,
• Faculty of Nursing,
• Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
• Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation,
• Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine,
• School of Public Health,
• Faculty of Science,

The University has two affiliated colleges:

St. Joseph's College offers a degree program in applied ethics, philosophy, religious education and theology, for credits in a degree program with a selection of art. The college also offers a special program for education students intending to teach in a Catholic school system Alberta.

St Stephen's College graduate, diploma and certificate in theological studies, with programs designed to enable distance learning.

The University of Alberta is a major economic driver in Alberta. Alberta economic impact of the university on an estimate of $ 12300000000 per year, or five percent of the gross domestic product of the province. With more than 15,000 employees, the university is the fourth largest employer Alberta.

The university has been recognized by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as one of the top five universities in Canada and one of the 100 universities worldwide.

According to the 2014 QS World University Rankings are the top area of ​​the Faculty at the University of Alberta is the Arts and Humanities (ranked 89th in the world), and the top-ranking subject is English Language and Literature (22 in the world).

University of Alberta has graduated more than 260,000 alumni, including the Governor General Roland Michener; Prime Minister Joe Clark; The Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin; Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, Dave Hancock, Jim Prentice and Rachel Notley; Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson and Nobel laureate Richard E. Taylor.

This university is a member of the Alberta Rural Development Network, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System.