The University of Waterloo dates its history from the first classes, July 1, 1957. At that time it was Waterloo College Associate Faculties -- the name UW came in 1960. Waterloo College, founded 1911, is now Wilfrid Laurier University.
Principal founders included J. Gerald Hagey (founding president), Ira G. Needles (first chairman of the board of governors), and Rev. Cornelius Siegfried, who brought St. Jerome's College (founded 1865) into federation with UW.
The College of Optometry of Ontario became a part of the university (as the school of optometry) in 1967.
The main campus is located along University Avenue in Waterloo, Ontario on what was, until the 1960s, farmland. Since its creation, a considerable level of commercial and residential development has built up around the Waterloo campus, notably with many offices of high-tech firms.
The geographical coordinates of the main UW campus are 43°28′14″N, 80°32′50″W.
The School of Architecture was relocated to a former mill in Cambridge, Ontario, in 2004.
A new campus for the health sciences program is being built in Kitchener, Ontario and will include a satellite of McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.
Faculties
- Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
- Faculty of Arts
- Balsillie School of International Affairs
- School of Accounting and Finance
- Faculty of Engineering
- Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology
- School of Architecture
- Faculty of Environmental Studies
- School of Planning
- Faculty of Mathematics
- David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
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