UBC is a leading global research university where bold thinking, curiosity and initiative are changing the world.

UBC’s researchers and scholars are pushing the boundaries of knowledge in an amazing breadth of disciplines. Their insights and discoveries are the foundation of UBC’s reputation as a leading research-intensive university. In partnership with universities, industry, government and communities worldwide, researchers at our two campuses and affiliated teaching hospitals are also generating ideas, discoveries and innovations that are improving lives in British Columbia, Canada and beyond.

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We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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