36 Facts About McMaster University

McMaster University is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

The main McMaster University campus is on 121 hectares of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

McMaster University resulted from the outgrowth of educational initiatives undertaken by Baptists as early as the 1830s.

The predecessor institution of McMaster University was established in 1881 as Toronto Baptist College.

In 1968 the university was reorganized under an amended act of the McMaster Act into the Divisions of Arts, Science, and Health Sciences, each with its own vice-president, while the Divinity College continued under its existing arrangement.

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In 1974 the divisional structure of the university was dissolved and reorganized again under The McMaster University Act, 1976 and the vice-presidents were replaced by a single vice-president .

McMaster University is in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, in the Golden Horseshoe along the western end of Lake Ontario.

The buildings at McMaster vary in age—from Hamilton Hall which opened in 1926, to the university's new Bertrand Russell Archives and Research Centre, which opened 25 June 2018.

McMaster University's library system is a member of 31 organizations, including the Association of Research Libraries.

The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections at McMaster University consist of papers of Canadian publishers; British personalities and of Canadian literary figures such as Farley Mowat, Pierre Berton, Matt Cohen, and Marian Engel.

Several other dining outlets at McMaster University have garnered awards throughout the years for food services.

Consideration for the new building began in 2004, when McMaster University had announced its initial intent to construct a new arts- and technology-intensive campus in partnership with the city of Burlington.

In 2009, the City of Burlington, Halton Region, and McMaster University signed an official agreement laying out the timelines and next steps for the university's expansion into Burlington.

McMaster University had announced construction of the McMaster University Downtown Health Campus in downtown Hamilton had begun in December 2012.

McMaster University purchased a large industrial park three kilometres east of its main Hamilton campus in 2005 with the intention of creating an array of research facilities for the development of advanced manufacturing and materials, biotechnology, automotive, and nanotechnology.

McMaster University campus received a B grade from the Sustainable Endowments Institute on its College Sustainability Report Card for 2011.

McMaster University is affiliated with one post-secondary institution, McMaster Divinity College.

McMaster University continued to operate as a Baptist-run institution until 1957, when provincial legislation allowed for the governance of the university to pass from the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, to a privately chartered, publicly funded arrangement.

McMaster University's revenue comes from endowment income, gifts, fees, and annual grants from the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, and the Government of Canada.

McMaster University has been registered as an educational charitable organization in Canada since 1 January 1967.

Programs, departments, and schools at McMaster University are divided among six faculties, the DeGroote School of Business, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Science, and the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The 2023 QS World McMaster University Rankings ranked the university 152nd in the world and sixth in Canada.

In Maclean's 2022 rankings, McMaster placed fourth in their Medical-Doctoral university category, and fifth in their reputation ranking for Canadian universities.

McMaster University was ranked in spite of having opted out from participation in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

McMaster University placed in a number of rankings that evaluated the employment prospects of graduates.

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McMaster University has received accolades for its research strengths, particularly in the field of health sciences.

Strength of nuclear science at McMaster was augmented in 1968 under the presidency of Dr H G Thode by the construction of a 10MV Model FN Tandem particle accelerator.

The McMaster University Engineering Musical is an annual musical production written, directed, and cast by engineers.

The university and the student unions do not recognize any fraternity or sororities; with existing fraternities and sororities chapters based at McMaster operating as non-accredited off-campus organizations.

Athletics at McMaster is managed by the university's student affairs, under their athletics and recreation department.

The first major sport game played at McMaster University was in 1889, when a group of alumni from Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College played an exhibition game against one another, sparking an early intercity rivalry between McMaster University students.

McMaster University has graduated 34 Olympic athletes, eight Olympic coaches, two Olympic administrators and two Olympic officials.

The McMaster University motto is unusual in that it employs Greek instead of Latin or English.

McMaster University's founders desired to go back beyond the Middle Ages to the earliest days of the Christian faith, and therefore used the Greek form.

Two individuals from McMaster University were award the Nobel Prize in Physics, faculty member Bertram Brockhouse in 1994 for his work in neutron scattering; and alumna Donna Strickland in 2018 for her work on laser physics.

Two medical researchers, and members of McMaster University had travelled in space; faculty member Dafydd Williams, and alumna Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman in space.