University of Guelph

50 Stone Road East
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
N1G 2W1

Tel: (519) 824-4120

www.uoguelph.ca

A Vibrant Community of Scholars and Learners

Thank you for visiting the University of Guelph. You will find our university to be a really vibrant institution where learning happens inside and outside the classroom.

Situated in southwestern Ontario, our beautiful campus supports a community of scholars and learners who are committed to the advancement of both knowledge and human values. This is a place that brings together the young and the old; a place of religious breadth, of racial and ethnic diversity and of academic endeavors that embrace the whole of the human experience. We are consistently ranked among Canada’s top comprehensive universities in part because of our friendly and supportive campus.

The Guelph community has a unique atmosphere that goes back to its traditional roots in practical, innovative and integrated learning. This is the legacy of our three founding colleges: the Ontario Agricultural College (est. 1874), the Ontario Veterinary College (est. 1862) and the MacDonald Institute (est. 1903). Today’s University of Guelph has a distinctive educational philosophy that is both learner-centred and research-intensive, and emphasizes a collaborative approach to learning.

More than 16,600 undergraduate and graduate students in six colleges benefit from a comprehensive and innovative curriculum that spans the arts, humanities, physical and natural sciences, and social sciences. These core disciplines are enhanced by Guelph’s commitment to interdisciplinary programs, to a selected range of professional and applied programs and to its areas of special responsibility in agri food and veterinary medicine.

In addition to a 330-hectare campus in Guelph, the University has three regional campuses that offer diplomas in agriculture and applied training, outreach and research to the agricultural community. The University has also partnered with Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto to offer specialized programs that provide both a University of Guelph honours degree and a college diploma in four years of study. Currently, the University of Guelph-Humber offers six undergraduate diploma-degree programs in purpose-built facilities in the Greater Toronto Area at Humber's north campus with more than 1,500 enrolled students.

Across all University of Guelph programs, our students are among the best in the country. Among comprehensive universities, Guelph has the highest proportion of entering students with averages of 75 per cent or more and the highest graduation rate. Guelph graduates are well prepared with the knowledge, skills and intellectual curiosity that are vital to personal and professional success.

Guelph’s reputation for excellence reflects our award winning faculty’s dedication to teaching and is complemented by their research and scholarly success. Guelph is the second most research intensive university in Canada (based on the ratio of research funds to operating funds), the first among non medical schools, with approximately $106 million annually in external research funding.

Over the past several years, the University of Guelph has been planning for the growth in university education in Ontario. We are actively recruiting talented new faculty and have completed or initiated more than $250 million in capital construction to help us accommodate a projected enrolment of 18,000 students by 2008. These new facilities include a townhouse style student residence, a state of the art classroom and teaching complex and a new science centre.

To maintain our high quality, we are looking even farther into the future, planning now for major renovations and development of the veterinary college and new space for our arts and social science programs.

We invite you to explore the University of Guelph through this website and experience our inspiring and innovative community.

Alastair Summerlee
President & Vice-Chancellor

Academic and campus services

Arboretum, art centre, athletics, bookstore, campus child care system, career services, centre for international programs, centre for students with disabilities, citizenship development program, contact help and safety line, counselling services, health and performance centre, health services, human rights and equity office, learning and writing services, learning commons, multi-faith centre, office of open learning, OUTline (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender), peer helper program, radio station, sculpture park, student leadership program, theatre, wellness centre, women’s resource centre.

First-year student programs

The Centre for New Students offers numerous programs. START Online (summer orientation program), New Student Orientation, and academic clusters (groups of 15-25 new students enrolled in the same degree program, who study, live and socialize together, guided by a returning undergraduate student).

Housing

On-campus: The university offers residence accommodation on campus for single students as well as couples and families. First-semester undergraduates who enter in September and apply for residence prior to deadline are guaranteed a spot. There are 4,800 single student spaces ranging from single rooms to apartments for up to 12 people and townhouses for up to six. There is a variety of residence accommodations: female-only, male-only, co-ed, and couple/family living in apartment/townhouse communities. There are also two family housing complexes with 121 one-bedroom units and 218 two-bedroom units. Meal plans are obligatory for resident students except for those living in an apartment, townhouse or family housing. Annual costs for single student accommodation spaces: single room, $4,320 - $5,098; double room, $3,930 - $4,218; meal plan, $2,630 - $3,790. Contact (519) 824-4120 ext. 56884 for annual costs for couple or family living spaces. Web site: www.housing.uoguelph.ca

Off-campus: Off-campus housing options exist within the area surrounding the university and throughout the city of Guelph. There is an off-campus housing office to assist students in finding off-campus accommodation. UofG also has a neighbourhood relations co-ordinator. Under-graduate and graduate students receive a city bus pass when they pay their tuition. Price range: houses/town-houses, $950 - $2,000/month; bachelor apartments, $425 -$550/ month; one-bedroom apartments, $525 - $725/ month; two-bedroom apartments, $650 - $875/month; three-bedroom apartments, $900 - $1,200/month; room with cooking, $325 - $400/month; room only (no cooking), $250 - $325/month; room and board, $400 - $600/month. Web site: www.housing.uoguelph.ca/ocho

Information technology

The university provides each student with a general computing account to access e-mail, the Internet, Web-based credit courses, Web page hosting opportunities, scanning services, software downloads and access to more than 1,000 microcomputers on campus. There are a variety of software training workshops for students. All campus residence rooms are connected to the university’s high-speed network and students living off-campus can connect via our dial-in modem facilities. For IT support needs, students can contact the Help Centre, a centralized service that quickly provides solutions to inquiries.

Telephone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 54124