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Post-Secondary Ed

• University of Waterloo
• Wilfrid Laurier University
• Conestoga College
• Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation
• Canadian Merit Scholarship Fund

University of Waterloo

Waterloo has long been recognized as the most innovative university in Canada. We are committed to advancing learning and knowledge through teaching, research, and scholarship in our faculties, colleges, and schools.

Our six faculties:

• Applied Health Sciences
• Arts
• Engineering
• Environmental Studies
• Mathematics
• Science

Our federated university and affiliated colleges:

• St. Jerome’s University
• Conrad Grebel University College
• Renison College
• St. Paul's United College

Our five faculty-based professional schools:

• Accounting and Finance (based in Arts)
• Architecture (Engineering)
• Computer Science (Mathematics)
• Optometry (Science)
• Planning (Environmental Studies)

A sixth, the School of Pharmacy, based in Science, will open in January 2008, anchoring a new Kitchener health sciences campus that will include a facility for McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.

What sets us apart is how we go about accomplishing our mission. From the beginning, Waterloo has been an outward-looking university, aware of and responsive to the needs of society.

We have the largest post-secondary co-operative education program in the world, and our students graduate with the knowledge, skills, and practical experience required to solve today’s complex and pressing problems and to embrace future challenges.

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Wilfrid Laurier University

Students choose Laurier for our Academic Reputation, Approachable professors, Sense of community, and our Co-op program to name a few.

We are a smaller institution, with small class sizes and a sense of community second to none.  Founded in 1911, Laurier is a premier university and renowned for attracting students who want to succeed.  Laurier offers an unparalleled academic experience. Our unique, interdisciplinary approach to learning allows students to combine majors in completely different fields. Laurier's faculty, among the finest anywhere, expand the horizons of our students, providing them with a broad perspective of the world that opens up new ways of thinking and seeing things.

Laurier offers a broad range of full and part-time graduate and undergraduate degree programs to over 11,000 students through 7 faculties. Our Faculty of Arts is our largest faculty. Our Faculty of Music has the only Masters of Music Therapy program in Canada. Laurier's  Faculty of Science is one of Canada’s leading teaching and research institutions. Our School of Business & Economics is one of Canada’s largest Business schools, and also among the most respected. We also have a  Faculty of Education, a  Faculty of Social Work and a Faculty of Graduate Studies. Our Brantford Campus is dedicated to innovative programming within the liberal arts.

Laurier is a place where the curious thrive, and where innovative programs and state of the art facilities give way to students who achieve success and results. 

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Conestoga College

From our humble early beginnings as a community college in 1967, Conestoga has risen to become one of Canada's premier polytechnic institutes. We offer advanced applied education, and research leading to the commercialization of innovation in southwestern Ontario. For the last nine straight years independent research has named Conestoga as the number one publicly funded college in Ontario!

Our largest campus (Doon) in Kitchener is located right next to highway 401 on 138 acres of land and offers a full range of programming. Our Waterloo campus is a centre of excellence for skilled trades and culinary. Our Guelph campus has emerged as a provincial leader in motive power trades. We also have smaller campuses in Stratford and Cambridge offering academic upgrading and career focused programs.

• Conestoga, established in 1967, has been the number one rated College in Ontario for the last nine years.

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Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation

The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation provides students with opportunities to pursue the post-secondary education they need to prepare themselves for the future.

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Canadian Merit Scholarship Fund

Founded in 1988, The Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation was the first national organization in Canada to grant scholarships based on a mix of academic achievement, extracurricular activity and leadership potential.

CMSF’s founders responded to what they recognized as a gap in the Canadian system of merit-based financial assistance to university students. Such assistance tended to be directed to two groups – those with exceptionally high academic averages, via university scholarship programs, and those with exceptional abilities as athletes, via national teams programs. Only a small proportion of overall financial aid was directed at those who show promise of the leadership and other talents that will make their communities better places both during and after their university careers.

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