University of British Columbia

The Institution of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university that has campuses located close to Vancouver as well as in Kelowna, which is also located in British Columbia. It is the oldest university in the province of British Columbia, having been founded in 1908. Over 8,000 research projects are given funding each year by the University of British Columbia, which has a research budget of $759 million annually.

The Vancouver campus is located in close proximity to the University Endowment Lands, which are situated around 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) west of the central business district of Vancouver. TRIUMF, the national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics in Canada, is located at the University of British Columbia (UBC). It is the biggest cyclotron in the world. Along with the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the Stuart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Max Planck Society collaborated to build the first Max Planck Institute in North America, which is focused on quantum materials. The University of British Columbia Library system is one of the biggest research libraries in Canada; it contains over 9.9 million volumes spread throughout its 21 locations. Kelowna, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, is the site of the Okanagan campus, which was purchased in the year 2005.

UBC alumni include ten fellows in both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society, eight Nobel laureates, 74 Rhodes scholars, 65 Olympians who have won medals, 273 fellows in the Royal Society of Canada, and ten fellows in both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society. A total of three Canadian prime leaders received their education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), including Kim Campbell, the country's first female prime minister, and Justin Trudeau, the current prime minister.