一、学校简介：
滑铁卢大学成立于1959年，仅数十年便跻身加拿大名校之列，是加拿大发展最快的学校。在加拿大最权威的教育杂志Maclean's的排名榜上，连 续10年排名第一。滑铁卢大学以外向型和合作教育项目而著称，注重将课堂内容与实际工作结合。学生在学习的时候会参加在公司的项目。滑铁卢大学的1万多名 学生在为世界各地28000多家公司工作。她创立的co-op program 课程模式让电脑系学生在学习的同时有机会在IBM，Nortel，Bell等著名公司获得工作经验。是北美电脑工业界的第一宠儿。同时她还向学生提供各种 跨学科的教育项目，例如数学与管理的联合学士学位、生物科技与经济学联合学士学位等。滑铁卢大学的毕业生一直是IBM、北方电讯等大公司追逐的目标。
二、地理位置：
滑铁卢大学位于加拿大最富庶的五大湖区，安大略省的滑铁卢市，距多伦多仅1小时车程，距尼亚加拉瀑布1.5小时车程。是一个安全、友好、清洁的中等城市，为学生提供了一个良好的学习，生活环境。

三、学校特点：
滑铁卢大学以其创新精神和优秀的学术背景文明世界，尤其在科学和技术领域，其中以计算机工程最为著名，是加拿大第一个提供计算机学位给学生的大学。同时，学校拥有世界最大的数学系，文学专业是学校最大的专业，大部分学生拥有参加社会实践的机会。

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:
? Accountancy (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.
But producing the leaders of tomorrow is just part of our mission. A research-intensive university, we’re committed to discovering new knowledge and finding ways to use that knowledge for the benefit of all.
We are the national leader in the transfer of ideas and technology to the private sector. More Canadian high-tech and knowledge-based spin-off companies trace their roots to the University of Waterloo than to any other school.

We're Innovative

Every year, Maclean's magazine measures the reputation of Canadian universities by soliciting the opinions of high-school guidance counsellors, university officials, heads of a wide variety of national and regional organizations, and CEOs and recruiters at large and small corporations.
For the past 15 years, Waterloo has been ranked most innovative among 47 universities across the country. For 13 of those 15 years, we also ranked best overall.
Waterloo leads comprehensive universities — those with significant research and graduate programs as well as undergraduate programs, but without medical schools — in the categories of percentage of students who win national academic awards, scholarships and bursaries as a percentage of budget, and alumni support.
In the Globe and Mail's 2006 University Report Card, UW scored A+ for overall academic reputation, reputation among employers, reputation for undergraduate studies, and reputation for conducting leading-edge research.
By linking academic instruction to the issues of the world around us, we cultivate leadership in our students.
In 2006, more than 97 per cent of Waterloo co-op students found co-op employment.
Waterloo co-op students earned nearly $124 million in 2006, much of which they spent in the local community.
More than 50 per cent of Waterloo undergraduate students are enrolled in co-op programs.
On a typical day during the main interview period, more than 100 employers are on campus interviewing students in the William M. Tatham Centre for Co-operative Education and Career Services.