The University of Ottawa (French: Université d'Ottawa), referred to as Ottawa, uOttawa or UofO, was founded in 1848 and is located in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. The University of Ottawa is Canada's top research university, Canada's oldest and the world's largest English-French bilingual university, a member of the U7 top university alliance in G7 countries, a member of the Canadian U15 research university alliance, and a member of the Commonwealth University Association; its predecessor is the Immaculate Conception. Bytown College, founded by the main society in 1848, obtained the Royal Charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1866 (Royal Charter, owned by only 9 universities in Canada), and reorganized the University of Ottawa and the University of Sao Paulo in 1965.

Since its establishment in 2020, Ottawa is known for its good academic atmosphere and bilingual teaching environment in English and French, and is a reputable academic research center in Canada. Its medical, pharmacology, physiological science, law, civil engineering, and education research ranks among the top 100 in the world; its International Development School is the largest development research institution in Canada, ranking among the top 50 in the world all year round; Telfer Business School It is the only school in Canada that has been accredited by the three top business schools in the world; it has the largest law school in Canada. It has trained many heads of state such as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin, and the former Prime Minister of Newfoundland, Edward Morris; Professor Paul Corkum was nominated as a possible winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics; Professor Antoine Hakim won the Nobel Prize Weathervane The Baby Nobel Prize. Scholars at the school have also won important world-class awards such as the Isaac Newton Medal, the Albert Einstein Award, and the Harvey Wiley Award.