MacEwan University

MacEwan University is a public undergraduate university founded in 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Initially, MacEwan was spread across four campuses, but in 2009 it moved to the main City Center campus, and today it has only one campus.

The university has six faculties and schools, including Fine Arts and Communications, Health and Community Studies, Arts and Science, Engineering, Physical Education, Nursing and Business, and it offers more than 50 programmes at bachelor's, applied degree, diploma and certificate levels.

To date, more than 81 thousand students have graduated from MacEwan University, 87% of whom live in Alberta. Currently more than 12 thousand full-time students are studying at MacEwan, around 60% of whom are women. The university's international students are admitted from about 80 countries around the world.

Why MacEwan University?

With more than half a century of experience, this university is among the top universities in Alberta, especially in terms of transfers, and in 2009 it was ranked as the sixth university in Alberta.

In 2014, students' complete satisfaction with the teaching methods of the faculty, class sizes, good interaction between faculty and students, and the quality of education earned MacEwan University an A+ rating and placed it among Canada's top universities.

The university offers its students a variety of facilities and academic and non-academic services, including a library (with more than 1,176,000 volumes), housing, sports facilities, financial aid or scholarships, study abroad, exchange programmes, online courses, distance learning opportunities and administrative services.

MacEwan University's sports teams are known as the Griffins and play sports including basketball, hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross-country, curling and golf, competing in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) and U Sports Canada West. In 2016, the university became the fifty-sixth full member of U Sports.

Centres and institutes on campus where research and innovation take place include the Acupuncture Teaching Clinic, the Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the Clinical Simulation Centre (CSC), the Conservatory of Music, early learning at the MacEwan Child Care Centre, the Testing Services Centre, the John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery, the kihêw waciston Indigenous Centre, the Massage Therapy Teaching Clinic, the Social Innovation Institute and the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre (URDC).