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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.

2023 quick facts

Admissions (Fall 2023)

Type	Undergraduate	Graduate
Applications	83,063	16,552
Enrolments	9,405	2,721

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

Undergraduate academic Profile (Fall 2023)

Admission average	86.8%
% of students with an admission average of 85% or higher	64.7%

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

Financial Aid To Students (2022-2023) $ millions

Undergraduate	90.5
Graduate	36.5
Work-Study Program	17.4

*Includes internal and external sources of funding

Co-op Programs (Fall 2023)

Type	Undergraduate	Graduate
Number of programs	71	21
Enrollments	8,494	276

% of work terms by sector	Undergraduate	Graduate
Public and para-public	61.2	53.6
Private	38.8	46.4

For more information, please visit the Co-op website.

French Immersion Studies (Fall 2023)

Number of programs	79
Enrolments	2,205

Alumni (Fall 2023)

Total number of alumni	266,037

Enrolment (Fall 2023)

By program and gender	Female	Male	Undetermined	Total
Undergraduate	23,296	15,528	1,230	40,054
Master’s	3,040	2,180	260	5,480
Doctorate	1,287	1,050	136	2,473
Other graduate	139	68	27	252

By language used	Headcount	% of total
English	33,081	68.5
French	15,178	31.5

By faculty	Undergraduate	Graduate	Total	%
Arts	4,635	684	5,319	11
Education	1,800	1,152	2,952	6.1
Engineering	4,991	2,232	7,223	15
Health Sciences	4,795	776	5,571	11.5
Interfaculty Programs	48	75	123	0.3
Law	1,939	252	2,191	4.5
Management (Telfer)	4,887	425	5,312	11
Medicine	2,090	658	2,748	5.7
Science	5,232	579	5,811	12
Social Sciences	9,637	1,372	11,009	22.8
Total	40,054	8,205	48,259	100.0

Internationalization (Fall 2023)

Type	Headcount	% of total
Undergraduate	7,650	71.3
Master’s and other graduate	2,086	19.4
Doctorates	989	9.2

Diplomas Conferred (in 2023)

Doctorates	307
Master’s	2,470
Graduate certificates and diplomas	60
Bachelor’s	7,587
Undergraduate certificates	47
Total	10,471
Number of diplomas conferred to date	---,---

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 2023)

Regular professors	Number
Full professors	605
Associate professors	456
Assistant professors	205
Total regular professors	1,266
Other professors*	79

Regular professors by faculty 2023	Number
Arts	193
Civil Law	38
Common Law	71
Education	53
Engineering	140
Health Sciences	120
Management (Telfer)	93
Medicine	123
Science	157
Social Sciences	252

Other professors	Total
Faculty in university-affiliated institutions**	2,789
Adjunct professors	501
Part-time professors***	1384
Visiting- Teaching	125
Visiting- Research	109
Postdoctoral researchers	356
Research fellows	7
Emeritus professors and librarians	294
Librarians and counsellors	56

* 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 2023)

Regular staff	2,167
Term staff	1,006
Total	3,173

2023

Research revenues by source	$ M
Federal	189
Provincial	65.2
Industry/private sector	43
Other (e.g., foundations, not-for-profit)	193

Research awards by federal funding agencies 2023**	Number
CIHR	61.7
NSERC	33.3
SSHRC	18.6
Total	113.7

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

Research Rankings (2023)

Ranking for total research funding	8th
Ranking in research intensity	5th
Ranking in publication intensity	5th
Research intensity (per full-time faculty position)	$329

* RESEARCH Infosource Inc., 2020. Canada`s Top Research Universities Report, based on fiscal year data ending in April 2022

Research Chairs (allocated)

Canada Research Chairs	94
University of Ottawa Research Chairs	44
Chaires de recherche sur le monde francophone	10
Endowed and Sponsored Research Chairs	62
University of Ottawa Senghor Chair	1
Distinguished Research Chairs	4

Library Collections (Fall 2023)

Print books*	2 634 000
E-books	3 513 939
E-journals	140 300
Non-print (e.g., maps, videos, slides)	934 117
Article databases	1 115

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

** Includes aggregated e-journals

Fall 2023

% satisfied with their overall experience at uOttawa	86%
% satisfied with the quality of teaching	85%
% satisfied with their social experience	72%
Participation rate in at least one experiential learning activity	83%

Students living in residence	3,894
International students living in residence	701

Fall 2022

% satisfied with their overall experience at uOttawa	86%
% satisfied with the quality of teaching	85%
% satisfied with their social experience	71%
Participation rate in at least one experiential learning activity	86%

Students living in residence	3,807
International students living in residence	758

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 (2023)

Sources of funding	$ millions
Operating grants	328
Research grants and contracts	431,1
Tuition and other fees	591,4
Donations	27,4
Capital grants	10,2
Investment income	77,8
Student housing	25,9
Sale of services	17,9
Other	148,6
Total	1,658.7

Expenditures (2022-2023)

Expenditures	%
Salaries and benefits	59.0
Scholarships and bursaries	11.3
Buildings and renovations	6.3
Furniture and equipment	5.2
Supplies	4.2
Maintenance and utilities	5.1
Other	8.9
Total	100.0
Endowment funds	$333,8 M