60 years of impact – and we’re just getting started

60 years of impact – and we’re just getting started

What began as a bold vision has grown over six decades into a place that helps shape what’s next for Canada and the world.

Start Something.

The University of Calgary is a place to start something—a career, a company, a new cure, or a new skill. We’re Canada’s entrepreneurial university. Join us!

Undergraduate programs

Take your next step at one of Canada’s top research universities. Whichever of our 250+ programs you choose, you’ll find state-of-the-art creative labs, hands-on learning, and invaluable mentorship opportunities. UCalgary doesn’t just teach entrepreneurial thinking, it’s part of everything we do. Ready to start something big?  

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Graduate programs

We offer more than 225 credentials across 80 programs —all with the entrepreneurial thinking that defines UCalgary. From across Canada and around the world, we attract people who want to enhance their knowledge, create new career pathways, or pursue ground-breaking research. Want to start your next something? 

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Professional and Continuing Education

With more than 1,200 courses and seminars and 70 in-demand certificate programs, we help working professionals adapt to the changing labour market and curiosity-seekers gain personal enrichment. UCalgary’s courses are relevant, in-demand, and best-practise-based. Want to learn something new? 

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Celebrating 60 years at UCalgary Community Day

Take a look back at the record-setting festivities with a photo gallery and special poem

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A dip in the Bow and donating blood: Dinos Field Hockey gets creative with fundraising

Giving Day support helps ease the burden on student-athletes and increase visibility of women in sport

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Engineering prof explores new way of detecting sepsis in newborns

Richa Pandey developing biosensor technology in her lab to more quickly and painlessly detect serious condition

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Astronomers find galactic 'monsters' in unexpected places using James Webb Telescope

UCalgary researchers are part of a Canadian-led Cycle 1 observing program

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Why UCalgary?

We've been ranked amongst the world's top universities and we've done it by pushing our limits, challenging ourselves to do better, and seeking knowledge – wherever that journey takes us.

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Undergraduate retention rate

250+ Programs

in the 14 Faculties at UCalgary

34,000+ Students

UCalgary educates over 26,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students

Graduate employment rate

The University of Calgary ranked in the Top 5 Academic All-Canadian student-athletes See more facts and figures

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