University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa, sometimes known as uOttawa or U of O, is a public, multilingual research university located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its official name is the Université d'Ottawa (French: Université d'Ottawa). The primary campus may be found in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood, which is 42.5 hectares (105 acres) in size and is situated immediately to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa, just over the Rideau Canal.

Joseph-Bruno Guigues, the first bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa, founded the institution that would later become the University of Ottawa in 1848. At the time, it was known as the College of Bytown. In 1861, it was renamed the College of Ottawa, and then in 1866, it was granted university status by means of a royal charter. Prior to this, it had been placed under the leadership of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The university was elevated to the status of a pontifical university on February 5, 1889, when Pope Leo XIII bestowed upon it a pontifical charter and made the awarding of the charter official. On July 1, 1965, the university was reformed as a corporation, making it autonomous from any other entity or religious institution. This change took place worldwide. As a direct consequence of this, the newly established Saint Paul University, which is federated with the university, was given custody of the civil and pontifical charters. The newly reformed university decided to keep the civil faculties that were already there.

The University of Ottawa is the institution with the highest number of students studying in both English and French of any university in the world. The university is organised into ten faculties, each of which is responsible for the administration of a distinct set of academic programmes. These faculties include the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, the Telfer School of Management, and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences, among others. There are 12 different libraries that make up the University of Ottawa Library, which has a collection of about 4.5 million different books. The research revenue of the university in 2022 was projected to reach 420 million Canadian dollars, which places it in the U15 group of research-intensive institutions in Canada.

The institution welcomes students of both sexes and now has more than 35,000 undergraduates and more than 6,000 post-graduates enrolled. 17 percent of the total student body is comprised of around 7,000 students who are not native English speakers and come from 150 different countries. The institution is connected to more than 195,000 of its former students and faculty members. Gee-Gees is the name given to the university's sporting teams, all of which compete in varsity sports and are members of U Sports.