About Us
The University of Guelph is ranked as one of the best comprehensive universities in Canada by Maclean's magazine. This ranking reflects Guelph's distinctiveness as a high-quality, student-focused, residentially-intensive university that is committed to innovative programs, dynamic student-faculty interaction, and an integration of learning and research. Over 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students benefit from an innovative and balanced curriculum with a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Building on these core disciplines, Guelph also has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary programs, to a selected range of professional and applied programs, and to agri-food and veterinary medicine as areas of special responsibility. The University of Guelph is renowned both for its excellence in teaching and its world-class research strengths in food, biotechnology, communities and families, health and well-being, culture and society, advanced analysis, and environments. Guelph's faculty have won more than 100 major awards for their teaching and 21 are Fellows of the Royal Society, reflecting outstanding scholarly achievement.
