Why Waterloo

The University of Waterloo is located in Southern Ontario, in the city of Waterloo, 100 km west of Toronto. Home over 30 research centres and institutes with world-leading expertise across all six faculties (Arts, Engineering, Environment, Health, Math, Science) including the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute. The Waterloo campus is home to state-of-the-art research and teaching labs, emerging technologies, innovative research, media labs, collaborative spaces, and world class facilities, it’s all here at Waterloo.

Learn more about the Waterloo campus, life as a graduate student and things to do in the Region of Waterloo.

Waterloo.AI Institute

Since launching in 2018, Waterloo.AI’s multi-disciplinary research teams have been collaborating with industry to develop intelligent systems in areas such as disease detection and treatment, understanding language and emotion, and vehicle navigation. Our projects are building tomorrow’s intelligent systems today, by translating industry requirements into deployable, real-time embedded AI. In years to come, we expect this investment to yield profound dividends for the economic prosperity and quality of life of people all around the world. And we are just getting started.

Waterloo Rankings:

#1 comprehensive research university in Canada (Research Infosource 2022)

#1 in Canada for entrepreneurial learning (Maclean’s Student Voices Survey 2022)

#1 Graduate employment rate (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022)

#1 School for entrepreneurs in Canada (Pitchbook University Rankings 2023)

Top 10 in the world for research on ending poverty and hunger (Times Higher Ed’s University Impact Rankings 2023)

Top 50 in the world for sustainable cities and communities (Times Higher Ed’s University Impact Rankings 2023)