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.

The University today

UBC's current president is Dr. Martha Piper. She is both the University's first female president and the first non-Canadian born president, though she holds Canadian citizenship. She recently announced her intention to retire from her post in June, 2006.

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The Vice-President (VP) Students is Brian Sullivan; VP External and Legal is Dennis Pavlich, incoming VP Research is John Hepburn, and VP Finance and Administration is Terry Sumner.

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UBC's 2001 operating income was $36.6 million CAD.

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In 2003, UBC had 3,167 full-time faculty, and 4,612 non-faculty full-time employees. It had over forty thousand students (33,566 undergraduate students and 7,379 graduate students), and more than 180,000 alumni in 120 countries. Enrollment continues to grow. The founding of the new Okanagan campus will increase these numbers dramatically. The university is one of only two Canadian members to have membership in Universitas 21, an international association of research-led institutions (McGill University is the other).

Related Topics:
2003 - Faculty - Undergraduate student - Graduate student - Okanagan - Universitas 21 - McGill University

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Buildings on campus currently occupy 1,091,997 gross m2, located on 1.7 km² of maintained land.

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The university's street plan is mostly in a grid of malls (for driving and pedestrian-only). Lower Mall and West Mall are in the southwestern part of the peninsula, with Main, East, and Wesbrook Malls northeast of them.

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