University of Victoria

Campus

The University of Victoria’s campus is on the border and lies in between the municipalities of Saanich and Oak Bay. The main campus of the university is undoubtedly one of the largest campuses in entire North America. The campus covers around 402 acres of land. When it comes to the library, the university has the second largest library in the entire British Columbia.  The university has a total number of three on-campus libraries. The libraries’ names are The Diana M. Priestly Law Library, the MacLaurin Curriculum Library, The William C. Mearns Centre for Learning/M.Pherson Library. 

Research

The university has aced research in almost eight areas, for instance, climate and energy, ocean science and technology, and more. The university has earned the ranking of being one of Canada’s leading research universities. Besides this, the university has several research centers and institutes as well. Some of the well-known centers and groups are the Centre of Forest Biology, Centre of Global Studies, Centre for Youth and Society, Astronomy Research Centre, and more. 

Programs and Academic Groups

The University of Victoria offers interdisciplinary undergraduate programs to its students. Besides that, it also provides numerous undergraduates courses through its faculties which are as follows:-

• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Fine Arts
• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Human and Social Development
• Faculty of Law
• Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social Sciences

Student Life

The University of Victoria also offers accommodation to its students. The accommodation option includes single and double rooms, accessible residence rooms, cluster rooms, and apartments. In single and double rooms, meal plans are included. 

The university has a total number of 21 dormitory buildings that have both single and double rooms. Such buildings have a common lounge as well, and the common lounges consist of television, microwave, and cable service. All the rooms in these buildings are well furnished, along with wireless internet and cable hookups. In the case of cluster accommodation121, townhouse and apartment units have an optional meal plan. There are two-bedroom and four-bedroom units, and this accommodation has a semi-furnished living room, two washrooms, one kitchen, and a single shower room.

Another accommodation option is apartments with an optional meal plan. In apartments, the students are provided furnished bachelor and single bedroom apartments. The last accommodation is accessible residence rooms that have automatic door entrances.