UBC consistently ranks as one of the world’s top research universities. Globally connected, we attract the highest-calibre research faculty and students and more than $750 million in research funding each year across both our Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
Our anthropologists and literary scholars are exploring ancient civilizations, while our physicists, chemists and engineers are developing futuristic materials. Research at UBC also spans the spectrum of human life, from discovering how babies develop language inside the womb, through to creating programs that support active and healthy aging. Collectively, researchers at UBC are making discoveries that are advancing their fields and changing our world. Some of these projects lead to new medical treatments, some help protect the biodiversity of our planet, while others develop and change our understanding of society and our roles within it.
Researchers and scholars at UBC are also coming together across disciplines and building partnerships beyond institutional boundaries to tackle some of the major challenges facing society, including climate change, health, social equity and disaster resilience. At UBC, the complex challenges of our world inspire exciting new ways of thinking and collaborating.
Nobel prize winners like Michael Smith and more than 300 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada have helped position UBC as a leading research university. Our current faculty members, and those training to be our researchers of tomorrow, share the bold thinking that is building a better future.
