McMaster University

McMaster University is a medium-sized research-intensive university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with an enrollment of 16,771 full-time and 3,599 part-time students (as of 2004).

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University - Hamilton, Ontario - Canada

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McMaster, or MAC, is comprised of six faculties: science, health sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, and business. The campus is located on 300 acres (1.2 km²) of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens.

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Westdale - Royal Botanical Gardens

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McMaster has a large number of well known comedian graduates including Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Ivan Reitman. There is a long standing debate on whether the movie Animal House was inspired by Reitman's time at McMaster's Whidden Hall during the so called "Whidden Riots" or Matthews Hall during the 1960's.

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Martin Short - Eugene Levy - Ivan Reitman - Animal House - Whidden Hall

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McMaster ranks as among the top 100 universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education Supplement rankings, and 90th in the world and 4th in Canada in the 2005 Shanghai Jiao Tong University world rankings of universities.

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