UBC - University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (commonly referred to as UBC) is a public research university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. UBC also operates a satellite campus in Kelowna, British Columbia as well as smaller speciality and satellite campuses located at Great Northern Way Campus (Digital Media) and Robson Street (Continuing Studies, Business, Law, Public Health), both in Vancouver proper. The 402-hectare (993-acre) main campus is located directly west of the University Endowment Lands, an unincorporated community on Point Grey, a peninsula about 10 km from downtown Vancouver. The 209-hectare (516-acre) Okanagan campus is situated about 20 minutes from downtown Kelowna. While the originating legislation created UBC on March 7, 1908, the first day of lectures was September 30, 1915. On September 22, 1925, lectures began on the new Point Grey campus. The enabling legislation are the University Act[6] and the University Amendment Act, 2004. The university is the oldest in British Columbia and has the largest enrollment with over 54,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan campuses combined.[4][8] The university library, which comprises 5.9 million books and journals, is the second-largest research library in Canada.