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HIGHER LEARNING
& RESEARCH
Among the stately, vine-covered brick buildings and towering trees,
students rush to class and meet friends over drinks, cramming all night
in the library or grabbing coffees. The University of Alberta, in the
province’s capital city of Edmonton, is home to over 40,000 students, and
always buzzing with activity.
Alberta has 26 publicly funded post-secondary institutions, from trade
schools to internationally ranked research universities, with over 200,000
students enrolled and over $1 billion in sponsored research revenue from
2020-2021. Fifty-five per cent of the province’s population has completed
a post-secondary education.
The University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta is consistently ranked
as one of Canada’s best undergraduate-focused universities. In 2019, the
university opened Science Commons, a $280 million facility designed to
be 50 per cent more energy efficient than a conventionally designed facility.
The University of Alberta’s science, technology and engineering programs
all rank first or second in Canada, including first in artificial intelligence.
QS World University Rankings rates the university in the top 100 around
the world. It’s also a major economic force in the province, with a total
economic impact of nearly $19.4 billion in 2021-2022.
Similarly, the University of Calgary drives $16.5 billion of economic
impact in Alberta. The school is a national leader in programs as diverse
as veterinary science, hospitality and leisure management and petroleum
engineering. QS World University Rankings rates the university’s nursing
school as one of the best in the world.
The University of Alberta and University of Calgary are among the top
research universities in Canada. Research funding is also available from
Alberta Innovates, a research and innovation agency focusing on artificial
intelligence, clean resource technologies, digital health, entrepreneurship
and smart agriculture. In 2022-2023, it invested $155.5 million in research
and innovation.
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