McMaster University facts for kids
McMaster University (commonly referred to as McMaster or Mac) is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on 121 hectares (300 acres) of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Hamilton.
It opened in Toronto in 1890. It was named after famous Canadian Senator William McMaster (1811–1887) who donated C$900,000 to create the university. It was relocated to a larger ground space in Hamilton in 1930. McMaster was controlled by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec until it became a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution in 1957.
The university is co-educational, and has over 25,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 post-graduate students.
The university ranked 4th among Canadian universities and 94th in the world according to the 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
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McMaster's oldest buildings are examples of Collegiate Gothic architecture, with architectural elements such as carved ornamentation, bas-reliefs, recessed arched entryways, and ashlar found throughout these buildings.
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The McMaster Museum of Art holds the highest attendance figures for a university-affiliated museum in Canada.
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A titan arum blooming inside the McMaster Biology Greenhouse, one of many facilities used for research at the university
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The McMaster Nuclear Reactor is the largest research reactor in the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Tihomir Orešković, 11th Prime Minister of Croatia
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Tommy Douglas, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan and first leader of the NDP
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Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel laureate in physics, for his work with neutron scattering
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Donna Strickland, Nobel laureate in physics for her work with laser physics
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Myron Scholes, Nobel laureate in economics for his work with the Black–Scholes model
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Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of the Nokia Corporation
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Cyrus S. Eaton, founder of Republic Steel and chairman of C&O Railway
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In Spanish: Universidad McMaster para niños