Founded in 1957, the University of Waterloo is a public research university with its main campus located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The university offers academic programs administered by six faculties and ten faculty-based schools.

The university also operates four satellite campuses and four affiliated university colleges. Waterloo is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada.

The student population at Waterloo consists of 30,600 undergraduate & 5,300 graduate students. These numbers include 15 per cent international undergraduate and 36 per cent international graduate students.

Waterloo boasts of 1,139 full-time faculty and 322 international faculty that has delivered 5,778 Bachelor degrees, 1,723 Masters 303 PhDs (2014 The University of Waterloo has 40,000 full and part-time students cumulatively between undergraduate and graduate programs (Fall 2018) 85% are undergraduate and 15% are graduate students 45,600 enrolments per year in online undergraduate & graduate courses (2017/18) 1000-acre main campus, 100+ buildings with six faculties 1957: University of Waterloo opens with 74 students, with engineering and co-operative education as cornerstones.