University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands, a suburb directly adjoining Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. It also has two smaller campuses in Vancouver: its campus at Vancouver General Hospital for the medical sciences and its UBC Robson Square campus in the downtown area of Vancouver for part-time credit and non-credit programs.

Current faculties and schools

• Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (now known as the Faculty of Land and Food Systems)http://www.agsci.ubc.ca; based at the MacMillan Building
• Faculty of Applied Sciencehttp://www.apsc.ubc.ca
• Departments of Engineering
• School of Architecture: based at the Lasserre Building
• School of Nursing: based at the Koerner Pavilion
• Faculty of Artshttp://www.arts.ubc.ca: based in the Buchanan Complex
• The Department of Asian Studies features North America's largest Mandarin Chinese programme and one of the largest Japanese language programmes.
• School of Audiology and Speech Sciences http://www.audiospeech.ubc.ca/
• School of Community and Regional Planning http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/
• Continuing Studies Departmenthttp://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/
• Faculty of Dentistryhttp://www.dentistry.ubc.ca/: at the Macdonald Building
• Faculty of Educationhttp://educ.ubc.ca/: located in the Scarfe Building and the Ponderosa buildings E, F, G and H
• Faculty of Forestryhttp://www.forestry.ubc.ca/: based at the Forest Science Centre
• Faculty of Graduate Studieshttp://www.grad.ubc.ca/: based at the Thea Koerner House Graduate Student Centre
• College of Health Disciplines http://www.health-disciplines.ubc.ca/
• School of Human Kineticshttp://hkin.educ.ubc.ca/: based at the War Memorial Gym
• School of Journalismhttp://www.journalism.ubc.ca/: located at the Sing Tao Building
• Faculty of Law http://www.law.ubc.ca/: based at the George F. Curtis Building
• School of Library, Archival and Information Studieshttp://www.slais.ubc.ca/
• Faculty of Medicinehttp://www.med.ubc.ca/
• School of Musichttp://www.music.ubc.ca/: based at the Music Building
• School of Occupational and Environmental Hygienehttp://www.soeh.ubc.ca/
• Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences: http://www.supporting.ubc.ca/faculties/pharmacy/based at the Cunningham Building
• School of Rehabilitation Scienceshttp://www.rehab.ubc.ca/
• Sauder School of Businesshttp://www.sauder.ubc.ca: based at Angus and David Lam Management Research Centre. It was, until June 5, 2005, known as the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration (still its formal name)
• Faculty of Sciencehttp://www.science.ubc.ca/
• Departments of Zoology and Botany: based at the Biosciences Centre
• Department of Physics and Astronomy ("PhysAstro"):
• Physics Program: based at the Hebb Theatre and Hennings Building
• Astronomy Program: based at the Geophysics and Astonomy Observatory Building
• Engineering Physics Program: based in the Hennings Building
• Department of Chemistry: based at the Chemistry Building
• Department of Microbiology and Immunology: based at the Wesbrook Building
• Department of Computer Science: based at the CICSR building (pronounced "caesar"), with most courses conducted at the new Hugh Dempster Pavilion.
• Department of Mathematics: based at the Mathematic Annex and Building
• Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences: based at the EOS Main Building (formerly Geological Sciences Building)
• School of Social Work and Family Studies:http://www.swfs.ubc.ca/ based at the Jack Bell Building