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The University of Ottawa is the largest bilingual (English-French) university in the world, the world’s first French immersion undergraduate program, among Canada’s top 10 research universities, located in Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, within walking distance of Parliament Hill and our co-operative education program is amongst the top five in the country.

2025 quick facts

Admissions (Fall 2025)

Type	Undergraduate	Graduate
Applications	77,605	9,594
Enrolments	10,638	1,664

*Excludes undergraduate admissions to the Faculty of Medicine and transfers between direct-entry faculties.

Undergraduate academic Profile (Fall 2023)

Admission average	86.8%
% of students with an admission average of 85% or higher	64.7%

*Students entering directly from an Ontario secondary school. Source: Ontario Universities Application Centre (OUAC)

Financial Aid To Students (2024-2025) $ millions

Undergraduate	127.2
Graduate	74.3
Work-Study Program	17.7

*Includes internal and external sources of funding

Co-op Programs (Fall 2025)

Type	Undergraduate	Graduate
Number of programs	74	22
Enrollments	8,057	324

% of work terms by sector	Undergraduate	Graduate
Public and para-public	61	56
Private	39	44

For more information, please visit the Co-op website.

French Immersion Studies (Fall 2025)

Number of programs	80
Enrolments	2,062

Alumni (Fall 2025)

Total number of alumni	288,744

Enrolment (Fall 2025)

By program and gender	Female	Male	Undetermined	Total
Undergraduate	24,330	16,255	1,312	41,897
Master’s	3,145	1,981	283	5,409
Doctorate	1,234	961	120	2,315
Other graduate	125	100	18	243

By language used	Headcount	% of total
English	33,554	67.3
French	16,310	32.7

By faculty	Undergraduate	Graduate	Total	%
Arts	4,436	663	5,099	10.2
Education	2,035	1,137	3,172	6.4
Engineering	5,287	1,849	7,136	14.3
Health Sciences	5,389	845	6,234	12.5
Interfaculty Programs	82	49	131	0.3
Law	2,033	237	2,270	4.6
Management (Telfer)	5,152	507	5,659	11.3
Medicine	2,328	702	3,030	6.1
Science	5,180	581	5,761	11.6
Social Sciences	9,975	1,397	11,372	22.8
Total	41,897	7,967	49,864	100.0

Internationalization (Fall 2025)

Type	Headcount	% of total
Undergraduate	5,978	73.7
Master’s and other graduate	1,230	15.2
Doctorates	907	11.2

Diplomas Conferred (in 2025)

Doctorates	402
Master’s	2,660
Graduate certificates and diplomas	63
Bachelor’s	8,143
Undergraduate certificates	43
Total	11,311
Number of diplomas conferred to date	---,---

Facilities (Fall 2018)

Total hectares (including both campuses)	44.3	Number of research laboratories	823
Main buildings (excluding residences and small buildings)	38	Number of teaching laboratories	263
Number of residence	31	Number of classrooms/seminar rooms	302
Number of residence beds	3,482	Current replacement value of assets	$2.29B

Academic Staff (Fall 2024)

Regular professors	Number
Full professors	629
Associate professors	436
Assistant professors	195
Total regular professors	1,260
Other professors*	74

Regular professors by faculty 2024	Number
Arts	184
Civil Law	36
Common Law	67
Education	53
Engineering	143
Health Sciences	116
Management (Telfer)	103
Medicine	122
Science	157
Social Sciences	265

Other professors	Total
Faculty in university-affiliated institutions**	2,735
Adjunct professors	623
Part-time professors***	1323
Visiting- Teaching	91
Visiting- Research	136
Postdoctoral researchers	363
Research fellows	9
Emeritus professors and librarians	302
Librarians and counsellors	58

* Includes lecturers, language teachers and teaching associates** Includes clinical professors and scientists in medicine and clinical professors in psychology. *** Includes part-time language teachers.

Support Staff (Fall 2024)

Regular staff	2,234
Term staff	946
Total	3,180

2025

Research revenues by source	$ M
Federal	208
Provincial	57
Industry/private sector	42.8
Other (e.g., foundations, not-for-profit)	203.3

Research awards by federal funding agencies 2025**	Number
CIHR	61.7
NSERC	39.3
SSHRC	25.1
Total	126.1

*Includes funding from grants, donations and investment income ** Excludes funding for scholarships

Research Rankings (2025)

Ranking for total research funding	7th
Ranking in research intensity	4th
Ranking in publication intensity	---
Research intensity (per full-time faculty position)	$386.9

* RESEARCH Infosource Inc., 2020. Canada`s Top Research Universities Report, based on fiscal year data ending in April 2024

Research Chairs (allocated)

Canada Research Chairs	94
University of Ottawa Research Chairs	40
Chaires de recherche sur le monde francophone	10
Endowed and Sponsored Research Chairs	51
Canada Excellence Research Chair	1
Distinguished Research Chairs	4

Library Collections (Fall 2025)

Print books*	2 634 000
E-books	3 241 360
E-journals	83 105
Non-print (e.g., maps, videos, slides)	374 900
Article databases	950

*Volume equivalent, including monographs, print journals, bound periodicals and government documents

** Includes aggregated e-journals

Fall 2025

% satisfied with their overall experience at uOttawa	87%
% satisfied with the quality of teaching	85%
% satisfied with their social experience	74%
Participation rate in at least one experiential learning activity	86.1%

Students living in residence	3,909
International students living in residence	541

Fall 2024

% satisfied with their overall experience at uOttawa	87%
% satisfied with the quality of teaching	86%
% satisfied with their social experience	74%
Participation rate in at least one experiential learning activity	86%

Students living in residence	3,175
International students living in residence	671

Fall 2023

% satisfied with their overall experience at uOttawa	86%
% satisfied with the quality of teaching	85%
% satisfied with their social experience	72%
Participation rate in at least one experiential learning activity	83%

Students living in residence	3,894
International students living in residence	701

Fall 2022

% satisfied with their overall experience at uOttawa	86%
% satisfied with the quality of teaching	85%
% satisfied with their social experience	71%
Participation rate in at least one experiential learning activity	86%

Students living in residence	3,807
International students living in residence	758

Fall 2020-2021

% satisfied with their overall experience at uOttawa	85%
% satisfied with the quality of teaching	85%
% satisfied with their social experience	77%
Participation rate in at least one experiential learning activity	90%

Fall 2019

% satisfied with their overall experience at uOttawa	83%
% satisfied with the quality of teaching	83%
% satisfied with their social experience	76%
Participation rate in at least one experiential learning activity	90%

Students living in residence	2,942
International students living in residence	1,130

Sources of Funding (2025)

Sources of funding	$ millions
Operating grants	365,9
Research grants and contracts	419
Tuition and other fees	691
Donations	36,6
Capital grants	7,3
Investment income	111,1
Student housing	30,8
Sale of services	16
Other	168,2
Total	1,846.3

Expenditures (2024-2025)

Expenditures	%
Salaries and benefits	57.5
Scholarships and bursaries	12
Buildings and renovations	7.7
Furniture and equipment	3.7
Supplies	3.6
Maintenance and utilities	4.4
Other	11.1
Total	100.0
Endowment funds	$361,9 M