Quick Facts 2020
- Largest bilingual (English-French) university in the world
- 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
- Our co-operative education program is amongst the top five in the country
Students
Admissions (Fall 2020)
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. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. |
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 (2018-2019) $ millions
Scholarships and bursaries* | |
Undergraduate | 44.5 |
Graduate | 34.5 |
Work-Study Program | 4.9 |
* Includes internal and external sources of funding |
Co-op Programs (Fall 2020)
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 |
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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 |
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English | 31,285 | 70 |
French | 13,408 | 30 |
By faculty | Undergraduate | Graduate | Total | % |
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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)
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 |
Staff
Academic Staff (Fall 2019)
Regular professors | |
---|---|
Full professors | 536 |
Associate professors | 474 |
Assistant professors | 213 |
Total regular professors | 1,223 |
Other professors* | 67 |
Regular professors by gender | |
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Female | 499 |
Male | 724 |
Regular professors by faculty | |
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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 | |
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Faculty in university-affiliated institutions** | 2,627 |
Adjunct professors | 591 |
Part-time professors*** | 895 |
Visiting- Teaching | 98 |
Visiting- Research | 154 |
Postdoctoral researchers | 433 |
Research fellows | 4 |
Emeritus professors and librarians | 208 |
Librarians and counsellors | 48 |
* 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 2019)
Regular staff | 1,907 |
Women | 1,176 |
Men | 731 |
Term staff | 1,063 |
Total | 2,970 |
Research
2020
Total research revenues* | $ M |
Research revenues by source | |
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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 | |
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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 (2019)
Ranking for total research funding | 9th |
Ranking in research intensity | 8th |
Ranking in publication intensity | 5th |
Research intensity (per full-time faculty position) | $240 |
* RESEARCH Infosource Inc., 2018. Canada`s Top Research Universities Report, based on fiscal year data ending in April 2017
Research Chairs (allocated)
Canada Research Chairs | 89 |
University of Ottawa Research Chairs | 40 |
Chaires de recherche sur le monde francophone | 9 |
Endowed and Sponsored Research Chairs | 57 |
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
Student Experience
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 |
Finances
Sources of Funding (2020)
SOURCES OF FUNDING* | $ millions |
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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 |