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• Year established: 1911
• President and Vice-Chancellor: Dr. Deborah MacLatchy
• Chancellor: Eileen Mercier

Senior Leadership

• Pamela Cant, Chief Human Resoures and Equity Officer
• Jason Coolman, Vice-President: Advancement and External Relations
• Ivan Joseph, Vice-President: Student Affairs
• Jonathan Newman, Vice-President: Research
• Lloyd Noronha, Vice-President: Finance and Administration
• Heidi Northwood, Interim Provost and Vice-President: Academic
• Antonio (Tony) Araujo, Interim Senior Executive Officer: Brantford Campus 

Locations

• Waterloo Campus
• Brantford Campus
• Kitchener: Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work
• Milton: new campus under development focusing on STEAM (Science, Technology Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)
• Yellowknife: Research Office

Students and Faculty Members

Number of Undergraduate Students*

• Full-time: 16,233
• Part-time: 3,681
• Total: 19,914

Number of Graduate Students*

• Full-time: 1,077
• Part-time: 1,124
• Total: 2,201

Number of Faculty (Estimate)**

• Full-time: 572
• Part-time: 463

Number of Staff (Estimate)**

• Full-time: 1,262
• Part-time: 128

*Numbers as of fall 2022.

**Numbers as of winter 2022. 

For additional statistical data, visit the Public Accountability page.

Faculties

Faculties Based at the Waterloo Campus and Kitchener Location

• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Science
• Lazaridis School of Business and Economics
• Faculty of Music
• Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Faculties Based at the Brantford Campus

• Faculty of Liberal Arts
• Faculty of Human and Social Sciences

Research Centres and Institutes

• Centre for Leading Research in Education
• Centre for Research on Security Practices
• Centre for Supply Chain Management
• Centre for Women in Science
• Cold Regions Research Centre
• The Co-operators Centre for Business and Sustainability
• CPA Ontario Centre for Capital Markets and Behavioural Decision Making
• Financial Services Research Centre
• International Migration Research Centre
• Laurier Centre for Community Research, Learning, and Action
• Laurier Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis
• Laurier Centre for Music in the Community
• Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
• Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada
• Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy
• Laurier Institute for Water Science
• Lazaridis Institute for Management of Technology Enterprises
• Manfred and Penny Conrad Institute for Music Therapy Research
• Manulife Centre for Community Health Research
• MS2Discovery Interdisciplinary Research Institute
• Sun Life Financial Centre for Physically Active Communities
• The Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa
• Viessmann Centre for Engagement and Research in Sustainability

Canada Research Chairs

• Canada Research Chair in Cold Regions Water Science (tier 1), Philip Marsh (Geography and Environmental Studies)
• Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Modelling (tier 1), Roderick Melnik (Mathematics)
• Canada Research Chair in Comparative Federalism and Multilevel Governance (tier 2), Jörg Broschek (Political Science)
• Canada Research Chair in Corporate Governance (tier 2), Daniel Waeger (Policy)
• Canada Research Chair in Financial Markets (tier 2), Andriy Shkilko (Business, Finance)
• Canada Research Chair in Global Adversity and Well-Being (tier 2), Bree Akesson (Social Work)
• Canada Research Chair in Global Political Ecology (tier 2), Audra Mitchell (Political Science) 
• Canada Research Chair in Northern Wildlife Biology (tier 2), Frances Stewart (Biology)
• Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change (tier 2), Homa Kheyrollah Pour (Geography and Environmental Studies)
• Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change (tier 1), Jennifer Baltzer (Biology)
• Canada Research Chair in Community-Driven Knowledge Mobilization and Pathways to Wellness (tier 2), Melody Morton Ninomiya (Health Sciences)

Other Research Chairs

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies Alison Blay-Palmer
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Ontario Chair for Women in Science and Engineering Shohini Ghose

Learn more about our other distinguished research chairs, professors and fellows.

Research Collaborations

• Government of the Northwest Territories Partnership
• Social Innovation Research Group (SIRG)
• Techne Biopolitical Research Group