The University of Waterloo is a top Canadian public university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Dr. Gerry Hager and Ella B. Needles. The school has a high reputation, especially as the first university in North America to be accredited to establish a mathematics department, and has the largest cooperative education program in the world. There are six colleges in the University of Waterloo. The school has awarded more than 100 undergraduate degree programs, 28 master and doctoral programs. The University of Waterloo is famous for mathematics, computer science, engineering science and other disciplines. The school's team has won many championships in the ACM International College Student Programming Competition.
The University of Waterloo is a well-known comprehensive public university with complete teaching facilities, advanced scientific research equipment and strong academic strength. It consists of the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Mathematics, the Faculty of Environment, and the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. The University of Waterloo has the only mathematics school in North America, which is also the world's largest education and research center for mathematics and computing. At the same time, in North America, the school is the first institution to adopt computer teaching, and the computer subject of this university is also very famous throughout North America, and other universities in Canada are hard to match in the field of computer science. In addition, the University of Waterloo School of Engineering has the best software engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering majors in Canada. In addition, the University of Waterloo is the first institution in Canada to offer Co-operative education (cooperative internship education) courses. Through this program, students can gain both study and internship opportunities in the subjects they study.