University of British Columbia facts for kids

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University of British Columbia
Motto Latin: Tuum Est
Established 1908
Students 65,012
Location Vancouver and Kelowna
Website ubc.ca

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a major public university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with another location in Kelowna. It was started in 1908 and moved to its current location in Point Grey in 1925. It is one of the largest universities in Canada, with a student population of over 60,000. UBC has a 1,000-acre campus, a part of which has been set aside for an endowment fund which generates $1.6 billion for the university.

The Vancouver location is in the University Endowment Lands, about 10 km (6 mi) west of Downtown Vancouver. UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canada's national workplace for particle and nuclear physics. It has the world's largest cyclotron. UBC also has the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Stuart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. UBC and the Max Planck Society founded the first Max Planck Institute in North America, which studies quantum materials. The UBC Library system has over 9.9 million books in its 21 locations and is one of the largest research libraries in Canada. The Okanagan campus, added in 2005, is located in Kelowna, British Columbia.

Three Canadian prime ministers, including Canada's first female prime minister Kim Campbell and current prime minister Justin Trudeau, went to UBC.



Images for kids

  • UBC Fairview campus (c. 1917)
    View of the UBC Fairview campus from the roof of King Edward High School (c. 1917) (Vancouver, British Columbia) (photo by Canadian Photo Co.)
  • Raven-and-the-first-men

    Bill Reid's Raven and The First Men at the UBC Museum of Anthropology

  • UBC aerial view

    Aerial view of the Vancouver Campus

  • Engineering Management and Education (UBC Okanagan)

    The Engineering, Management, and Education (EME) Complex at UBC Okanagan

  • Koerner Library UBC

    The Walter C. Koerner Library and president's office, designed by UBC alumnus Arthur Erickson

  • UBC Law at Allard Hall

    Aerial view of the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC

  • Chan centre performing arts concert tessler

    The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, designed by Bing Thom, B.Arch. '66

  • UBC Bookstore 2015

    Exterior of the main UBC Bookstore.

  • Gage residence

    Gage Towers

  • Marine Drive Residence

    Marine Drive

  • Olympic Hockey at UBC

    UBC's Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre during the 2010 Winter Olympics

  • Rosegarden ubc

    UBC Rose Garden

  • Bjarni Tryggvason

    Bjarni Tryggvason B.ASc 1972, Icelandic-Canadian astronaut and academic who participated in NASA mission STS-85.


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