Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) is located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and is known for its business program, graduate school of social work, and innovative faculty of music. It has a compact campus and relatively small enrollment compared with other Ontario universities.

Academics

Laurier has faculties of the Arts, Science, Music, and Social Work, and a School of Business & Economics. Although comparatively small, the university has consistently ranked among Canada's top schools, an honour which is regularly confirmed by Maclean's magazine's annual publication.

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Laurier began offering a part-time MBA program in 1976, and Laurier School of Business & Economics offered Canada's first full-time one-year MBA program in 1986 and recently launched Canada's first fully integrated MBA to give both the MBA degree at the same time as earning an accounting designation. As well, Laurier students regularly have the highest success rate at CA and CMA exams.

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The school also has a unique program in photonics, the only undergraduate program of it's kind in Canada.

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The university is the current headquarters of the United Nations (ACUNS) Academic Council on the United Nations System which was previously hosted by Yale, Brown and Dartmouth. The ACUNS goal is to strengthen the study of international organizations and to create strong ties between the academic community and diplomats within international organizations.

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The Laurier Library holds nearly 1.7 million books and journals in hard copy or microform, and provides access to over 6,000 electronic reference tools and full text electronic journals. In addition, the library is a member of the TriUniversity Group of Libraries (University of Waterloo, University of Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier University), through which access to a combined information collection in excess of 6 million print items is available.

Related Topics:
University of Waterloo - University of Guelph

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