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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.

2020 quick facts

Admissions (Fall 2020)

Type	Undergraduate	Graduate
Applications	70,677	11,609
Enrolments	9,019	1,462

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

Undergraduate academic Profile (Fall 2016)

Admission average	85.1%
% of students with an admission average of 85% or higher	53.9%

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

Financial Aid To Students (2019-2020) $ millions

Undergraduate	45.5
Graduate	54.9
Work-Study Program	4.6

*Includes internal and external sources of funding

Co-op Programs (Fall 2020)

Type	Undergraduate	Graduate
Number of programs	94	23
Enrollments	8,167	230
Placement rate	-	-
Employers (undergraduate and graduate)	-	-

French Immersion Studies (Fall 2020)

Number of programs	115
Enrolments	2,313

Alumni (Fall 2020)

Total number of alumni	239,711

Enrolment (Fall 2020)

By program and gender	Female	Male	Undetermined	Total
Undergraduate	21,904	14,577	968	37,449
Master’s	2,813	1,736	277	4,826
Doctorate	1,128	1010	86	2,224
Other graduate	114	65	15	194

By language used	Headcount	% of total
English	31,285	70
French	13,408	30

By faculty	Undergraduate	Graduate	Total	%
Arts	4,341	723	5,064	11.3
Education	1,641	1010	2,651	5.9
Engineering	4,620	1,644	6,264	14
Health Sciences	4,095	789	4,884	10.9
Interfaculty Programs	4	111	115	0.3
Law	1,829	0	1,829	4.1
Management (Telfer)	4,623	299	4,922	11
Medicine	1,896	539	2,435	5.4
Not Applicable	0	197	197	0.4
Science	4,995	630	5,625	12.6
Social Sciences	9,405	1,302	10,707	24
Total	37,449	7,244	44,693	100.0

Internationalization (Fall 2020)

Type	Headcount	% of total
Undergraduate	6,520	75.3
Master’s and other graduate	1,413	16.4
Doctorates	720	8.3

Diplomas Conferred (in 2019)

Doctorates	267
Master’s	1,783
Graduate certificates and diplomas	58
Bachelor’s	7,098
Undergraduate certificates	17
Total	9,206
Number of diplomas conferred to date	275,875

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 2020)

Regular professors	Number
Full professors	560
Associate professors	462
Assistant professors	201
Total regular professors	1,223
Other professors*	64

Regular professors by gender 2019	Number
Female	499
Male	724

Regular professors by faculty 2019	Number
Arts	209
Civil Law	33
Common Law	75
Education	57
Engineering	132
Health Sciences	115
Management (Telfer)	78
Medicine	108
Science	149
Social Sciences	255
Others (administrative positions)	12

Other professors	Total
Faculty in university-affiliated institutions**	2,843
Adjunct professors	435
Part-time professors***	941
Visiting- Teaching	52
Visiting- Research	177
Postdoctoral researchers	-
Research fellows	2
Emeritus professors and librarians	233
Librarians and counsellors	51

* 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 2020)

Regular staff	1,981
Women	-
Men	-
Term staff	1,082
Total	3,063

2020

Research revenues by source	$ M
Federal	149
Provincial	56.6
Industry/private sector	45.8
Other (e.g., foundations, not-for-profit)	129

Research awards by federal funding agencies 2020**	Number
CIHR	45.3
NSERC26.1	30
SSHRC	19.5
Total	94.8

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

Research Rankings (2020)

Ranking for total research funding	9th
Ranking in research intensity	7th
Ranking in publication intensity	5th
Research intensity (per full-time faculty position)	$274

* RESEARCH Infosource Inc., 2020. Canada`s Top Research Universities Report, based on fiscal year data ending in April 2019

Research Chairs (allocated)

Canada Research Chairs	89
University of Ottawa Research Chairs	42
Chaires de recherche sur le monde francophone	10
Endowed and Sponsored Research Chairs	53
University of Ottawa Senghor Chair	1
Distinguished Research Chairs	4
Canada 150 Research Chair	1

Library Collections (Fall 2020)

Print books*	2,440,928
E-books	2,427,304
Government Publications	1,023,632
E-journals	76,414
Micromaterials	1,933,215
Non-print (e.g., maps, videos, slides)	754,642
Article databases	937

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

** Includes aggregated e-journals

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 (2020)

Sources of funding	$ millions
Operating grants	318,2
Research grants and contracts	329,6
Tuition and other fees	449,2
Donations	31,8
Capital grants	-3,4
Investment income	42,5
Student housing	22,5
Sale of services	14,4
Other	149,4
Total	1,354.2

Expenditures (2019-2020)

Expenditures	%
Salaries and benefits	65.3
Scholarships and bursaries	8
Buildings and renovations	2.1
Furniture and equipment	4.1
Supplies	4.7
Maintenance and utilities	4.9
Other	11
Total	100.0
Endowment funds	$295,4 M