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The University of Victoria (UVic) is the second oldest degree granting university in British Columbia. This medium-sized university is located in Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Greater Victoria is located in British Columbia, Canada, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. It is a cultural rather than political entity, usually defined as the thirteen easternmost Municipality on Vancouver Island of the Capital Regional District, British Columbia ....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 (northeast of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is a major tourism destination seeing more than 3.65 million visitors a year who inject more than one billion dollars into the local economy....
) with an enrollment figure of approximately 19,500 students, as of 2007. The campus is famous for its prestige, beautiful gardens, mild climate and large rabbit population. It attracts many students in part because of its size, its picturesque location, and its cooperative education
Cooperative education

Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with internship. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience....
 program, which is the third largest in Canada.






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The University of Victoria (UVic) is the second oldest degree granting university in British Columbia. This medium-sized university is located in Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Greater Victoria is located in British Columbia, Canada, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. It is a cultural rather than political entity, usually defined as the thirteen easternmost Municipality on Vancouver Island of the Capital Regional District, British Columbia ....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 (northeast of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is a major tourism destination seeing more than 3.65 million visitors a year who inject more than one billion dollars into the local economy....
) with an enrollment figure of approximately 19,500 students, as of 2007. The campus is famous for its prestige, beautiful gardens, mild climate and large rabbit population. It attracts many students in part because of its size, its picturesque location, and its cooperative education
Cooperative education

Cooperative education is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with internship. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience....
 program, which is the third largest in Canada. The university is the nation's lead institution in the VENUS
Venus

Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus , the Roman mythology goddess of love....
 project, and the Canadian leader of the NEPTUNE
NEPTUNE

=Overview=The project, along with sister project, VENUS, offers a unique approach to ocean science. Traditionally, ocean scientists have relied on infrequent ship cruises or space-based satellites to carry out their research....
 project. The university press, The Martlet, is a member of CUP
Canadian University Press

Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by almost 80 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada....
.

The Coat of Arms
Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
 of UVic has the longest history of all the post secondary institutions of British Columbia dating back to 1903, beating the runner up, UBC, by 12 years.

History


University of Victoria was established in July 1 1963 in Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria is a major tourism destination seeing more than 3.65 million visitors a year who inject more than one billion dollars into the local economy....
 when an existing college of the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a Canada Public university research university with campuses in Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia....
 gained autonomy as a university. The Non-denominational university had enjoyed 60 years of prior teaching tradition at the university level as Victoria College
Victoria College, British Columbia

Victoria College was a two-year college in Victoria, British Columbia founded in 1903 with sponsorship from McGill University. It was one of the first post-secondary institutions in British Columbia....
. This 60 years of history may be viewed conveniently in three distinct stages. Between the years 1903 and 1915, Victoria College was affiliated with McGill University
McGill University

McGill University is a Public university#Canada located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university....
, offering first- and second-year McGill courses in Arts and Science. Administered locally by the Victoria School Board, the College was an adjunct to Victoria High School and shared its facilities. Both institutions were under the direction of a single Principal: E.B. Paul, 1903-1908; and S.J. Willis, 1908-1915.

The opening in 1915 of the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a Canada Public university research university with campuses in Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia....
, established by Act of Legislature in 1908, obliged the College to suspend operations in higher education in Victoria. University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a Canada Public university research university with campuses in Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia....
 a single, public provincial university created in 1908 was modelled on the American state university, with an emphasis on extension work and applied research. The governance was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate (faculty), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors (citizens) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the 2 bodies and to perform institutional leadership.

In 1920, as a result of local demands, Victoria College began the second stage of its development, reborn in affiliation with the University of British Columbia. Though still administered by the Victoria School Board, the College was now completely separated from Victoria High School, moving in 1921 into the magnificent Dunsmuir mansion known as Craigdarroch Castle
Craigdarroch Castle

Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, British Columbia, is an historic, Victorian-era mansion comprising 39 rooms and over . It was constructed in the 1890s as a family residence for the wealthy coal baron Robert Dunsmuir and his wife Joan....
. Over the next two decades, under Principals E.B. Paul and P.H. Elliott, Victoria College built a reputation for thorough and scholarly instruction in first- and second-year Arts and Science. It was also during this period that future author Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton

Pierre Francis De Marigny Berton, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario was a noted Canada author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist....
 edited and served as principal cartoonist for the student newsletter, The Microscope.

The final stage, between the years 1945 and 1963, saw the transition from two year college to university, under Principals J.M. Ewing and W.H. Hickman. During this period, the College was governed by the Victoria College Council, representative of the parent University of British Columbia, the Greater Victoria School Board, and the provincial Department of Education. Physical changes were many. In 1946 the College was forced by postwar enrollment to move from Craigdarroch to the Lansdowne campus of the Provincial Normal School (This is the current location of the Camosun College
Camosun College

Camosun College is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. As of 2009 it has over 12,500 full-time and part-time students between its Lansdowne and Interurban campuses....
 Lansdowne Campus). The Normal School, itself an institution with a long and honourable history, joined Victoria College in 1956 as its Faculty of Education. Late in this transitional period (through the co-operation of the Department of National Defence and the Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. The company was incorporated by British royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay; it is now domiciled in Canada and has adopted the mo...
) the 284 acre (1,1 km²) now 385 acre (1.6 km²) campus at Gordon Head was acquired. Academic expansion was rapid after 1956, until in 1961 the College, still in affiliation with UBC awarded its first bachelor's degrees.

Uvic
In the early part of this century, professional education expanded beyond the traditional fields of theology, law and medicine. Graduate training based on the German-inspired American model of specialized course work and the completion of a research thesis was introduced.

The policy of university education initiated in the 1960s responded to population pressure and the belief that higher education was a key to social justice and economic productivity for individuals and for society.

The university gained its autonomy in 1963 as the University of Victoria. The University Act of 1963 vested administrative authority in a chancellor elected by the convocation of the university, a board of governors, and a president appointed by the board; academic authority was given to the senate which was representative both of the faculties and of the convocation.

The historical traditions of the university are reflected in the coat of arms, its academic regalia and its house flag. The BA hood is of solid red, a colour that recalls the early affiliation with McGill. The BSc hood, of gold, and the BEd hood, of blue, show the colours of the University of British Columbia. Blue and gold have been retained as the official colours of the University of Victoria. The motto at the top of the Arms of the University, in Hebrew characters, is "Let there be Light"; the motto at the bottom, in Latin, is "A Multitude of the Wise is the Health of the World."

Campus

Uvic Imp
The main Campus is located in the Gordon Head
Gordon Head

Gordon Head is a neighbourhood in the Greater Victoria municipality of Saanich, British Columbia. Converted from an area of small farms and greenhouses into a residential area after the construction of the University of Victoria, part of which lies in the neighbourhood....
 area of Greater Victoria. With a total area of 403 acres (1.6 km²), the campus spans the border between the municipalities of Oak Bay
Oak Bay, British Columbia

Oak Bay is a municipality in the Capital Regional District on Vancouver Islandin the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is a suburb east of and adjacent to the city of Victoria, British Columbia....
 and Saanich
Saanich, British Columbia

The District of Saanich is a municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is located north of the provincial capital, Victoria, British Columbia....
. The original campus plan was prepared by the San Francisco firm of Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons, Architects and Planners. The general concept of the original design is still being followed with the academic portions of the campus located inside Ring Road which forms a perfect circle 600 m in diameter. Outside of Ring Road are the parking lots, Student Union Building, residence buildings, the sports facilities as well as some of the academic facilities that are more self contained (Law and Theatre for example). Some of the more prominent buildings on campus are:
  • Bob Wright Centre - the School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling & Analysis, Chemistry and Astronomy labs
  • Business and Economics Building - besides the obvious, this building also houses the offices of senior university administrators.
  • Clearihue - Faculty of Humanities, including the Departments of English, Philosophy, Linguistics, Greek and Roman Studies, Medieval Studies, Slavonic Studies, History, Women's Studies, Pacific and Asian Studies, and languages. Also included are student computing facilities, the UVic Computer Store, and classrooms. Clearihue is the oldest building on campus, originally constructed in 1962 and augmented by an addition in 1971.
  • Cornett - includes classrooms and the Departments of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology.
  • Cunningham - includes the Department of Biology, a herbarium, numerous specialized research laboratories and the Centre for Forest Biology.
  • David Strong - classrooms, seminar rooms and the Mathews and McQueen auditorium.
  • Elliott - includes the Departments of Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy, as well as a number of classrooms and laboratories. The building is topped by the Climenhaga Observatory.
  • Engineering Buildings - includes the Engineering Office Wing, the Engineering Lab Wing and the Engineering/Computer Science building (ECS) - home to the Faculty of Engineering, which includes the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
  • Fraser - formerly known as the Begbie building - houses the Faculty of Law
    University of Victoria Faculty of Law

    University of Victoria Faculty of Law is a law school in Victoria, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada. The school was ranked fourth in Canada by the Canadian Lawyer Magazine in its 2007 Report Card on Canadian Law Schools ....
    , the Institute for Dispute Resolution and the Centre for Pacific-Asia Initiatives. The building also houses classrooms, seminar rooms, a moot courtroom and the Diana M. Priestly Law Library.
  • Hickman - formerly called the Centre for Innovative Teaching - includes "Smart" classrooms featuring closed-circuit cameras and remote projection systems to link teachers and students with other classrooms.
  • Ian Stewart Complex - the main fitness facility. Includes tennis courts, an ice rink, an outdoor pool and a gym.
  • MacLaurin - includes the Faculty of Education and School of Music, as well some classrooms and the David Lam Auditorium.
  • McKinnon Gymnasium - the School of Physical Education, the main Gymnasium and an indoor swimming pool.
  • Medical Sciences Building - the Island Medical Program
    Island Medical Program - University of Victoria

    The Island Medical Program at the University of Victoria is a program created by the province to increase the number of new physicians on Vancouver Island in British Columbia....
    .
  • Petch Building - the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
  • Phoenix Theatre - the Theatre department.
  • University Centre - includes many administrative offices (Accounting, Payroll, Advising, Record Services) as well as the main public cafeteria, Maltwood art gallery and the Farquhar auditorium.
  • Sedgewick - Centre on Aging, Centre for the Study of Religion in Society, Centre for Global Studies; administration offices.
  • Social Sciences and Mathematics - houses the Departments of Geography, Political Science, and Mathematics, as well as the School of Environmental Studies.
  • Student Union Building - popularly known as "the Sub", it houses a movie theatre, food services, a bookstore, and the headquarters of several clubs and campus organizations, including a radio station (CFUV). There is also a student pub, Felicita's, and a defunct nightclub, Vertigo, which is now study space.
  • Army Huts - nine single-storey wood-frame utilitarian Second World War buildings (1940) on the northern part of the University of Victoria campus are on the Registry of Historic Places of Canada
Construction is underway on the First Peoples House.

The university also offers on-campus housing for over 3200 students. A variety of housing is available, including single and double rooms, apartment-style housing with 4 people per unit (Cluster Housing) and family housing (Lam Family Housing). One of the buildings is named for General Sir Arthur William Currie.

Much of the university property has been dedicated to nature, notably Finnerty Gardens
Finnerty Gardens

Finnerty Gardens is a public woodland garden located on and maintained by the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Its main feature is the sizeable collection of rhododendrons artfully arranged throughout the 2.7 hectare site....
 and Mystic Vale
Mystic Vale

Mystic Vale is a forested ravine that was acquired by the University of Victoria in 1993 and is located outside the ring road to the south east of campus....
, a 44,000 m² forested ravine. The campus is home to deer, owls, squirrels, the occasional cougar and many other wild animals native to the area. The large population of domestic rabbit
Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. There are seven different genus in the family taxonomy as rabbits, including the European rabbit , Cottontail rabbit , and the Amami rabbit ....
s, which likely descended from abandoned house pets from the surrounding community, is a memorable feature of the campus.

Faculties and divisions

  • Business - Offers BComm and MBA
    Master of Business Administration

    The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines....
     degrees, EQUIS
    Equis

    Equis may refer to:*European Quality Improvement System an international system of assessment and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration run by the European Foundation for Management Development....
     accredited.
  • Continuing Studies
  • Education
  • Engineering - Students can choose to specialize in the following disciplines: Computer Engineering
    Computer engineering

    Computer Engineering is a discipline that combines elements of both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Computer engineers are electrical engineers that have additional training in the areas of software design and hardware-software integration....
    , Electrical Engineering
    Electrical engineering

    Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of engineering that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism....
     and Mechanical Engineering
    Mechanical engineering

    Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of physics#branches of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of machine....
    .
Also offers a Software Engineering
Software engineering

Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches....
 program, run jointly by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science.
  • Fine Arts Includes departments of History in Art
    Art history

    Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e.genre, design, format, and look.This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects....
    , Music
    Music

    Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
    , Theatre
    Theatre

    Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
    , Visual Arts
    Visual arts

    The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
     and Writing
    Creative writing

    Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional writing, journalistic, Academic writing, and technical forms of literature....
    .
  • Graduate Studies
  • Human & Social Development - Includes the departments and programs: Child and Youth Care, Dispute resolution
    Dispute resolution

    Dispute resolution is the process of resolving disputes between party ....
    , Health Information Science
    HINF

    Health Information Science is a school of study at the University of Victoria dealing with the instruction of Health Informatics. Undergraduate, Masters, and Doctorate degrees are available from the school....
    , Indigenous Governance, Nursing
    Nursing

    Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the detail-oriented care of individuals, family, and community in attaining, maintaining, and recovering optimal health and functioning....
    , Public Administration
    Public administration

    Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government public policy. The pursuit of the public good by enhancing civil society and social justice is the ultimate goal of the field....
    , and Social Work
    Social work

    Social work is a discipline involving the application of social theory and research methods to study and improve the lives of people, groups, and societies....
    .
  • Humanities - Includes the departments and programs: English
    English studies

    English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics , and English sociolinguistics ....
    , French
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
    , Germanic
    Germanic languages

    The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European languages language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Pre-Roman Iron Age....
     and Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    n Studies, Greek
    Ancient Greece

    The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
     and Roman
    Ancient Rome

    Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
     Studies, Hispanic
    Hispania

    Hispania was the name given by the Ancient Rome to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula . When Rome was a Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into Roman provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior....
     and Italian
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     Studies, History
    HIStory

    HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
    , Linguistics
    Linguistics

    Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
    , Medieval studies, Pacific and Asia
    Asia

    Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
    n Studies, Philosophy
    Philosophy

    Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
    , and Women's Studies
    Women's studies

    Women's studies is an interdisciplinary List of academic disciplines devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender identity, and politics....
    .
  • Law
  • Medical Sciences
  • Science - Includes the departments and programs: Biochemistry
    Biochemistry

    Biochemistry is the study of the chemistry processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
     and Microbiology
    Microbiology

    Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryote such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes, which are bacteria and archaea....
    , Biology
    Biology

    Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
    , Chemistry
    Chemistry

    Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
    , Earth and Ocean Sciences
    Earth science

    Earth science , is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth . It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet....
    , Mathematics
    Mathematics

    Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
     and Statistics
    Statistics

    Statistics is a Mathematics pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data....
    , and Physics
    Physics

    Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
     and Astronomy
    Astronomy

    Astronomy is the science of Astronomical object and Phenomenon that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere . It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the physical cosmology....
    .
  • Social Sciences Includes the following: Anthropology
    Anthropology

    Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
    , Economics
    Economics

    File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
    , Environmental Studies
    Environmental studies

    Environmental studies is the systematic study of human behavior with their environment. It is a broad field of study that includes the natural environment, built environments, social environments, organizational environments, and the sets of relationships between them....
    , Geography
    Geography

    Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
    , Political Science
    Political science

    Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior....
    , Psychology
    Psychology

    Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
    , and Sociology
    Sociology

    Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
    .


Rankings

Maclean's Magazine, a major Canadian news magazine, has ranked UVic as one of the top three comprehensive universities in the nation for three consecutive years. Its Faculty of Law has also ranked first in the country, 8 out of the last 11 years. Currently, they are ranked 4th by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. University of Victoria's MBA
Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines....
 program is consistently ranked as the top 10 of its kind in the nation. UVic is British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
's second largest research university after UBC, and is one of Canada's top 20 research institutions. According to ScienceWatch, UVic is nationally ranked first in geoscience, second in space science
Space science

Space science is an all-encompassing term that describes all of the various science fields that are concerned with the study of the Universe, generally also meaning "excluding the Earth" and "outside of the Earth's atmosphere"....
 and education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
, and third in engineering
Engineering

Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying Technology and science knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and process that safely realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria....
 and mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
 for the period of 2000-2004.

  • 2004. Maclean's Magazine ranked UVic as 3rd in comprehensive university category.
  • 2005. Maclean's Magazine ranked UVic as 2nd in comprehensive university category.
  • 2006. Maclean's Magazine ranked UVic as 3rd in comprehensive university category.
  • 2007. Maclean's Magazine ranked UVic as 1st in comprehensive university category.
  • 2007. Academic Ranking of World Universities
    Academic Ranking of World Universities

    The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University?s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , ?highly-cited researchers...
     ranked the University of Victoria as 200-300th in the world.
  • 2007. THES-QS
    THES - QS World University Rankings

    The THE - QS World University Rankings is an annual publication that ranks the "Top 200 World Universities", and is published by Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds ....
     World University Rankings ranked University of Victoria as 213th in the world and 12th in Canada.
  • 2008. Maclean's Magazine ranked UVic and SFU as 1st in comprehensive university category.


Athletics

The university is represented in the Canada West Universities Athletics Association (CWUAA), Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Canadian Interuniversity Sport

Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree granting universities in the country....
 (CIS), and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs....
 (NAIA) by the team Victoria Vikes
Victoria Vikes

The Victoria Vikes are the athletic teams that represent the University of Victoria of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in Canadian Interuniversity Sport....
.

The university currently has teams in the following sports:
  • Basketball (M/W)
  • Cross Country & Track (M/W)
  • Field Hockey (M/W)
  • Golf (M/W)
  • Rowing (M/W)
  • Rugby (M/W)
  • Soccer (M/W)
  • Swimming (M/W)


The university has a sports hall of fame. The Charter Inductees are as follows:

  • Lorne Loomer: Rowing Coach - Builder/Administrator
  • Wally Milligan: Men's Soccer Coach - Builder/Administrator
  • Gareth Rees: Rugby - Athlete Category
  • Ken Shields
    Ken Shields (Canadian basketball)

    Kenneth William Daniel Shields, Order of Canada is a basketball coach, the one with the most wins in Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's basketball history with the University of Victoria, and former head coach of Canadian national men's basketball team....
    : Basketball - Coach Category
  • Kathy Shields: Basketball - Coach Category


Canadian Inter-University Sports(CIS) Championships
Men's basketball: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1997
Women's basketball: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2003
Men's cross-country: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
Women's cross-country: 1981, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Women's field hockey: 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003
Men's soccer: 1976, 1988, 1997
Women's soccer: 2005

Canadian University Championship Titles
Men's rugby: 1998, 1999
Men's rowing: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
Women's rowing: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Men's golf: 2003

Sport Clubs

UVic has 28 sport clubs which are administered by Vikes Recreation, and run by students. Some of those clubs include:

  • The Figure Skating Club
  • The Hockey Club
  • The Badminton Club
  • The Tennis Club
  • The Dance Company
  • The Waterpolo Club
  • The Juggling Club
  • The Equestrian Club
  • The Kendo Club


People


Presidents

  • W. Harry Hickman, 1963-1964 (Acting)
  • Malcolm G. Taylor, 1964-1968
  • Robert T. D. Wallace, 1968-1969 (Acting)
  • Bruce J. Partridge, 1969-1972
  • Hugh E. Farquhar, 1972-1974
  • Stephen A. Jennings, 1974 (Acting)
  • Howard E. Petch, 1975-1990
  • David F. Strong, 1990-2000
  • David H. Turpin
    David H. Turpin

    David Howard Turpin was appointed the sixth president of the University of Victoria, a university in Victoria, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada, on 1 September 2000....
    , 2000-present


Notable faculty (past and present)

  • Alan Astbury, physics professor emeritus, he was part of Nobel-prize winning discovery of new subatomic particle, and eventually won Rutherford medal for physics
  • David D. Balam
    David D. Balam

    David D. Balam is a Canada astronomer and a research associate with University of Victoria Department of Physics and Astronomy, in Victoria, British Columbia, British Columbia....
    , a Canadian astronomer, Asteroid 3749 Balam
    3749 Balam

    3749 Balam is an asteroid orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Canada astronomer David D. Balam....
     is named after Balam
  • Harold Coward, a world-reowned scholar in religious studies and a president of Academy 2 of the Royal Society of Canada
    Royal Society of Canada

    The Royal Society of Canada , now known as the RSC: Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada....
  • Werner Israel
    Werner Israel

    Werner Israel, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society is a Canada physicist.Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, he received his B.Sc....
    , a Canadian physicist, discovered the important phenomenon of mass inflation (Together with Stephen Hawking
    Stephen Hawking

    Stephen William Hawking Companion of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy is a British Theoretical physics....
    , he has coedited two important celebratory volumes).
  • Stephen Arthur Jennings
    Stephen Arthur Jennings

    Stephen Arthur Jennings was a mathematician who made significant breakthroughs in the study of modular representation theory, . His advisor was Richard Brauer, and his student Rimhak Ree discovered two infinite series of finite simple groups known as the Ree groups....
    , a mathematician who made significant breakthroughs in the study of modular representation theory
    Modular representation theory

    Modular representation theory is a branch of mathematics, and is that part of representation theory which studies linear representations of finite group G over a field K of positive characteristic ....
  • Patrick Lane
    Patrick Lane

    Patrick Lane is an award-winnig Canada poet. He has written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and is the author of the novel, Red Dog, Red Dog....
    , a Canadian poet, the recipient of almost every major literary prize in Canada.
  • Marshall McCall, scientist, expert on the chemical evolution of galaxies.
  • Erich Mohr, researcher in experimental therapeutics for central nervous system disorders.
  • Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize

    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
    , along with Al Gore and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team.
  • Anne Zeller
    Anne Zeller

    Anne Zeller is a physical anthropologist who specializes in the study of primates. She received her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Toronto....
    , a physical anthropologist who specializes in the study of primates.
  • William Gaddes, noted Canadian psychologist and one of the first specialists in learning disorders in BC.
  • Otfried Spreen, neuropsychologist and aphasia researcher.
  • Jesse Read, musical conductor, composer, and bassoonist.
  • Don VandenBerg
    Don VandenBerg

    Don VandenBerg is a professor of Astronomy at the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria. Dr. VandenBerg is internationally acclaimed for his work on modelling stars of different size and composition....
     internationally acclaimed astrophysicist for his work on modelling stars.
  • Julio Navarro (astrophysicist)
    Julio Navarro (astrophysicist)

    Julio F. Navarro is a professor of Astronomy at the department of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Victoria. Dr. Navarro's research is mainly focused on the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters and the structure and evolution of their dark matter component....
     involved in formulating a density profile for dark matter halos.
  • Benjamin Butterfield Internationally acclaimed operatic tenor


Notable alumni

The university counts over 88 000 alumni some more notable alumni follow.

Government/Public sector
  • George Abbott
    George Abbott (politician)

    George Abbott is a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia of British Columbia, Canada. He represents the riding of Shuswap , which he has held since 1996....
    , British Columbia
    British Columbia

    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
    's Minister of Health
  • Rona Ambrose
    Rona Ambrose

    Ronalee "Rona" Ambrose, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Member of the Canadian House of Commons is the Minister of Labour, as well as the Vice-Chair of the Treasury Board Cabinet committee....
    , Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister of Western Economic Diversification
    Minister of Western Economic Diversification (Canada)

    The Minister of Western Economic Diversification is the Minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada who also serves as the chief executive of Western Economic Diversification Canada....
     and President of the Privy Council for Canada
  • Ric Careless, one of B.C.'s leaders in wilderness preservation, named Environmentalist of the Year (1991) by Equinox Magazine and River Conservationist of the Year (1993) by American Rivers.
  • Murray Coell
    Murray Coell

    Murray Coell is British Columbia's Minister of Advanced Education and Minister responsible for Research and Technology. He is the British Columbia Liberal Party MLA for the riding of Saanich North and the Islands, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia....
    , British Columbia
    British Columbia

    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
    's Minister of Advanced Education and Minister responsible for Research and Technology, former Mayor of Saanich, British Columbia
    Saanich, British Columbia

    The District of Saanich is a municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is located north of the provincial capital, Victoria, British Columbia....
     Municipality
  • Stockwell Day
    Stockwell Day

    Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Member of the Canadian House of Commons , is a Canada politician and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada....
    , former Canadian Alliance Party leader and currently the federal Minister of International Trade.
  • Barbara Hall
    Barbara Hall

    Barbara Hall is a Canada lawyer, public servant and former politician. She was the 61st mayor of Toronto, the last to run before amalgamation....
    , former Mayor of Toronto (1994–1997).
  • Colin Hansen
    Colin Hansen

    Colin Hansen is British Columbia's Minister of Finance and Minister Responsible for the 2010 Winter Olympics.Born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Hansen was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia during the general election of 1996 and re-elected in the general elections of 2001 and 2005....
    , British Columbia
    British Columbia

    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
    's Minister of Economic Development (former Minister of Health Services (2001-04) and Minister of Finance (2004-05)).
  • Gary Lunn
    Gary Lunn

    Gary Vincent Lunn, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Canadian House of Commons is a Canada Member of Parliament of Canada for the British Columbia riding of Saanich?Gulf Islands and Minister of State in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper....
    , federal Minister of Natural Resources.
  • Lorna Marsden
    Lorna Marsden

    Lorna Marsden, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario is a Canada sociology, academic, and former politician. She is the former President and Vice-Chancellor of York University and a former Senate of Canada....
    , A former president of York University
    York University

    York University is a Public university research university located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders across the humanities and in sciences such as chemistry, meteorology and space science....
    .
  • Barry Penner
    Barry Penner

    Barry Penner is British Columbia's Minister of Natural environment and Minister responsible for Water Stewardship and Sustainable Communities. He is also British Columbia Liberal MLA for Chilliwack-Kent and the government's Deputy House Leader....
    , British Columbia
    British Columbia

    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
    's Minister of Environment (former president of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER)).
  • Dr.Savitri Chandrasekhar, one of the University of Toronto’s most renowned chemistry professors.


Entertainment and Arts sector
  • Calvin Chen
    Calvin Chen

    Calvin Chen Yi Ru is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit . His stage name is a homophone of his birth name....
    , completed his masters degree in Economics, he is currently a singer and actor as a member in the popular Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit.
  • Aislinn Hunter
    Aislinn Hunter

    Aislinn Hunter Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts is a Canada poetry and fiction author. She is married and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia....
    , Canadian poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....
     and fiction author.
  • Erin Karpluk
    Erin Karpluk

    Erin Karpluk is a Canada television actress. She is best known for her leading role in Godiva's and in Being Erica....
    , actress
  • Aaron McArthur, Global Television BC reporter
  • Nilesh Patel (filmmaker)
    Nilesh Patel (filmmaker)

    Nilesh Patel is a Canadian director and producer of films....
  • W. P. Kinsella
    W. P. Kinsella

    William Patrick Kinsella, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada novelist and short story writer who is well-known for his novel Shoeless Joe which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989....
    , Canadian novelist well-known for his novel Shoeless Joe
    Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe may refer to:*Shoeless Joe Jackson, the baseball player*Shoeless Joe , a novel by W. P. Kinsella, later made into the film Field of Dreams, that features the aforementioned baseball player...
     (1982) which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams
    Field of Dreams

    Field of Dreams is a 1989 in film Cinema of the United States Fantasy film/drama film, directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W....
  • Peter Verin, UVic's resident 'philosopher'.


Athletes/Sports sector
  • Kirsten Barnes, two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing (Barcelona, 1992)
  • Gareth Rees, CEO for Rugby Canada
    Rugby Canada

    Rugby Canada, is the national Sport governing body for the sport of rugby union in Canada. Rugby Canada was incorporated in 1974, and stems from the Canadian Rugby Football Union, a body established in 1884 that now governs amateur Canadian football as Football Canada; and the now-defunct Rugby Union of Canada, established in 1929....
     and Canada's all-time leading goal scorer in Rugby
  • Kyle Hamilton, gold medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's eights (rowing)
  • Ken Shields
    Ken Shields (Canadian basketball)

    Kenneth William Daniel Shields, Order of Canada is a basketball coach, the one with the most wins in Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's basketball history with the University of Victoria, and former head coach of Canadian national men's basketball team....
    , former basketball head coach of Canadian National Team.
  • Alison Sydor
    Alison Sydor

    Alison Sydor is a Canada cross country mountain cycling. She began cycling at age 20 and is a graduate of the University of Victoria. She won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in mountain bike, and has won 3 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships gold medals ...
    , world mountain bike champion who won three world mountain bike championships gold medals (was awarded the Velma Springstead Trophy as Canada's top female athlete in 1995 and 1996)
  • Stephanie Dixon
    Stéphanie Dixon

    St?phanie Dixon, born February 10, 1984, is a Canada swimmer. Prior to the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, Dixon had accumulated fifteen Paralympic medals and is considered to be one of the best swimmers with a disability in the world....
    , swimmer, gold medalist in Paralympic Games
    Paralympic Games

    The Paralympic Games are a Paralympic sports for athletes with physical and visual disabilities. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy....
     Athena 2004 and Sydney 2000, other numerous medals in the Parapanamerican Games
  • Ryan Cochrane, 2008 Olympic bronze in the men’s 1500m freestyle.


Business sector
  • Stewart Butterfield
    Stewart Butterfield

    Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman. He co-founded the photo sharing website Flickr and its parent company Ludicorp with his wife Caterina Fake....
    , Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman, co-founded the photo sharing website Flickr
    Flickr

    Flickr is an and video hosting service website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository....
     and its parent company Ludicorp
    Ludicorp

    Ludicorp is the company that created Flickr and Game Neverending. It was bought by Yahoo! in 2005....
    .
  • Jeff Mallett
    Jeff Mallett

    Jeff Mallett, born in Vancouver, British Columbia but raised in Victoria, British Columbia. Jeff is a former soccer and baseball player with Gordon Head Soccer Association and Gordon Head Baseball Association....
    , former president and chief operating officer of Yahoo
  • Peter Ciceri, former vice-president of Compaq
    Compaq

    Compaq Computer Corporation was an United States personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard Company....
     Computer Corporation,U.S.A
  • Richard Flury, former chief executive of BP
    BP

    BP plc , is the third largest global energy corporation, a multinational corporation oil company with headquarters in London. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ....
    .
  • Mark Hill, co-founder and former Vice-President of WestJet
    WestJet

    WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canada low-cost carrier based in Calgary, Alberta, that flies to most major cities in Canada and serves destinations in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean....
    .
  • Bob Cummings, Executive Vice-President - Guest Experience and Marketing of WestJet
    WestJet

    WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canada low-cost carrier based in Calgary, Alberta, that flies to most major cities in Canada and serves destinations in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean....
    .
  • Tim Price, chair and director of Trilon Financial Corporation.
  • Sheridan Scott
    Sheridan Scott

    Sheridan Scott is the current Commissioner of Competition of the Competition Bureau of Canada. She was appointed in January 2004.A 1981 graduate in law from the University of Victoria, Scott is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada....
    , former head of Competition Bureau of Canada and a vice-president of Bell Canada.


Student affairs

  • The Martlet
    The Martlet

    The Martlet is a weekly student newspaper at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada. There are over a dozen employees on the payroll, but significant work is done by student volunteers ....
     - The UVic weekly student newspaper, which is distributed all over campus, and the Victoria area. The Martlet is partly funded by student fees, and is online at .


  • CFUV - A campus/community radio station serving Greater Victoria at 101.9 and, via cable on 104.3, Vancouver Island
    Vancouver Island

    Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Ocean coast of North America between 1791 and 1794....
     and many areas in the lower mainland and North Western Washington State. The station also has a large international listernership on the internet at .


Honours

The asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
 150145 UVic was named in the university's honour on 1 June 2007, the first university in BC to have an asteroid named after it.

See also

  • Akitsiraq Law School
    Akitsiraq Law School

    Akitsiraq Law School offered a Bachelor of Laws Degree in Iqaluit, Nunavut. to the residence in Nunavut and the surrounding Arctic region. The program was a partnership between the University of Victoria Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria, Nunavut Arctic College and the Akitsiraq Law School Society....
  • University of Victoria Students' Society
    University of Victoria Students' Society

    The University of Victoria Students' Society , founded in 1963 is the student society that represents the 18 000 undergraduate students at the University of Victoria....
  • Adaptive Public License
    Adaptive Public License

    The Adaptive Public License is an Open Source license from the University of Victoria. It is a weak copyleft, adaptable template license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative....
  • Camosun College
    Camosun College

    Camosun College is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. As of 2009 it has over 12,500 full-time and part-time students between its Lansdowne and Interurban campuses....
     - neighbouring school
  • List of universities in British Columbia
    List of universities in British Columbia

    There are eleven public universities and four private universities in the Canadian province of British Columbia. New academic degree programs for all British Columbia secondary education institutions must be approved by the Ministry of Advanced Education; the Ministry must also give consent to private institutions to grant degrees in British Columb...
  • Higher education in British Columbia
    Higher education in British Columbia

    Higher education in British Columbia is delivered by 25 publicly funded institutions that are composed of eleven universities, eleven colleges, and three institutes....
  • Education in Canada
    Education in Canada

    Education in Canada is provided, funded and overseen by Government of Canada, Provinces of Canada, and local governments. Education is within provincial jurisdiction and the curriculum is overseen by the province....


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