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University of Waterloo offers Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral Degree Programs.

University of Waterloo is a public research university whose main campus is located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on 404 hectares (1,000 acres) of land in Uptown Waterloo. The university offers a wide variety of academic programs, which is administered by six faculties and ten faculty-based schools. The university also operates four satellite campuses and four affiliated university colleges. Waterloo is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada.

The university is co-educational, and has nearly 26,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 post-graduate students. The university ranked 151-200th in the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, 191st in the 2012 QS World University Rankings.

Several of Waterloo’s programs are world renowned, including the and the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Engineering .

Waterloo’s Department of Mathematics , in the field of statistics and operational research, Waterloo was ranked 32nd in the world, and first in the country by the QS World University Rankings. The same rankings also placed Waterloo 29th in the world, and second in Canada in the field of mathematics.

Waterloo’s engineering program has consistently been ranked within the top 100 universities. The 2012 ARWU’s rankings for the field of engineering, technology and computer sciences, had ranked the university 43rd in the world and second in Canada.