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.

Student services and residences

• The Student Union Building (SUB) http://www.ams.ubc.ca: offices of many clubs, half a dozen restaurants and cafes, a pub, a nightclub, a video game arcade, and the inexpensive 425-seat Norman Bouchard Memorial Theatre ("The Norm Theatre"), several shops and a post office. The SUB Art Gallery contains mostly students' work. Beside the SUB, there is a small mound called The Grassy Knoll, which was constructed from the contents of the open pool dug near the Aquatic Centre. The Grassy Knoll is slated to be destroyed due to the planned construction of an underground bus loop; the destruction is an unpopular move among students.
• Totem Park: A residence primarily for first and second year undergraduate students (houses 1163).
• Place Vanier: A residence primarily for first and second year undergraduate students (houses 1370).
• Gage Towers: A residence primarily for second and third year undergraduate students.
• Fairview: A residence primarily for second, and third year undergraduate students.
• Thunderbird: A residence primarily for graduate students and fourth year undergraduate students.
• Ritsumeikan-UBC House: A residence with a Japanese cultural setting, named for Ritsumeikan University. Houses Japanese exchange students and Canadian students, who participate in unique intercultural programmes. The residence's tatami room is used for practice sessions by the UBC Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony club.
• Marine Drive Residence: A new residence with target opening date of Fall 2005.
• Green College http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/: A residential graduate college for graduate students with an interdisciplinary focus.
• St. John's College http://www.stjohns.ubc.ca/: A residential graduate college with an international focus.