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The University of Waterloo, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is a comprehensive public university that was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles. [1] It has grown into an institution of more than 42,000 students, faculty, and staff. [2]
In 2017, Pitchbook Data ranked the University of Waterloo's undergraduate program fourth for schools that have the greatest number of alumni who have founded unicorn startups. [225] As of the same year, Waterloo students and alumni have raised a cumulative US$3.662 billion in venture capital.
The Faculty of Engineering is one of six faculties at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.It has 8,698 undergraduate students, 2176 graduate students, 334 faculty and 52,750 alumni [1] making it the largest engineering school in Canada [2] with external research funding from 195 Canadian and international partners exceeding $86.8 million. [3]
The School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) at University of Waterloo is a professional school within the Faculty of Arts. The School was established in 1980 under the name 'School of Accountancy'. Its name was changed in 2008 to better reflect its program offering. [3] [4] Today, more than 1,600 students are enrolled in the School's programs.
In 2014, the Toronto-based CampusRanking.ca began publication of its annual Canadian University and College Rankings, focusing on undergraduate education. The student-generated rankings asked over 40,000 undergraduate students and alumni to rate their schools. The survey was done across 135 schools in Canada. [14]
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [234] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
In partnership with the University of Waterloo, PI conducts Perimeter Scholars International (PSI), [37] a master's level course in theoretical physics. [38] The 10-month course was inaugurated in August 2009, and admits around 30 scholars per year.
Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...