University of British Columbia
A public research university with major campuses in Vancouver and the Okanagan, offering undergraduate, graduate and extended learning programmes.
About University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia was established by a provincial University Act in 1908 and opened in 1915 in temporary premises near Vancouver General Hospital, moving to its Point Grey campus in 1925. A second major campus in Kelowna became UBC Okanagan in 2005, following a merger with Okanagan University College. Teaching is organised into faculties and schools covering applied science, arts, science, medicine, dentistry, pharmaceutical sciences, forestry, education, business, law and music, among others. The university reports 72,100 students, 60,309 in Vancouver and 11,791 in the Okanagan, and 20,662 faculty and staff. It also runs sites in downtown Vancouver, including UBC Robson Square, and clinical training for medical students at more than 80 sites across British Columbia.
Schools and faculties
Faculty of Applied Science
Covers engineering and related applied disciplines at the Vancouver campus.
Faculty of Arts
Covers the humanities, social sciences and creative arts at the Vancouver campus.
Faculty of Science
Covers the natural, mathematical and computational sciences at the Vancouver campus.
Faculty of Medicine
Trains medical students at Vancouver and through the Southern Medical Program in the Okanagan.
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship
Covers forestry and environmental management.
Sauder School of Business
The Vancouver campus business school.
Peter A. Allard School of Law
The university's law school.
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science
The science faculty at the Okanagan campus.
Study options
- Undergraduate degrees
- Master's degrees
- PhD and research degrees
- Extended learning
Research
Research is supported across both campuses, with four Global Research Excellence institutes: the Life Sciences Institute, Language Sciences Institute, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute and BioProducts Institute. The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies supports interdisciplinary work, and the university reports 296 companies spun off from UBC research.
- Rank in Canada
- #2 of 25
- Research works
- 383,618
- Citations
- 35.4 million
- h-index
- 1,428
Research figures from OpenAlex (October 2026). How the directory is made.
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