27 About McMaster University
- Established in 1887 in Toronto, Ontario, the University moved to its current Hamilton location in 1930
- Consistently ranked as one of the country’s most innovative educational institutions, McMaster University fosters a culture of exploration and discovery. Students are encouraged to look at their education and world in new and different ways
- McMaster has pioneered a number of programs that have changed how professors teach and students learn. Problem-based-learning (PBL), developed at McMaster, has now spread across North America as a preferred method of instructing students
- 2017 marked the 130th Anniversary of McMaster University
- McMaster University has 26,780 full-time undergraduate students, 4,485 full-time graduate students, and more than 182,000 alumni in 134 countries
- The university has 985 full-time instructional faculty (excluding clinical educators), 93 per cent of which hold a PhD or MD
- One of only four Canadian universities ranked among the top 100 in the world (Shanghai Jiaotong University Academic Ranking of World Universities, August 2016)