Laurentian University

Country : Canada

Laurentian University (Université Laurentienne), which was incorporated on March 28, 1960, is a mid-sized bilingualuniversity in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

While primarily focusing on undergraduate programming, Laurentian also features the east campus of Canada's newest medical school?the Northern Ontario School of Medicine?which opened in 2005. Its school of Graduate Studies offers a growing number of graduate-level degrees. Laurentian is the largest bilingual provider of distance education in Canada.

Partnership

The university has strong ties with the mining industry, being one of the few schools in Canada offering mining engineering, and the only Canadian university located in a city where the major industry is mining. The Willett Green Miller Centre, a provincial building located on campus, houses the Ontario Geological Survey, the Ontario Geoscience Laboratories, the J.B. Gammon Mines Library, and the Mining and Minerals Division of the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. It also houses the Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO), a not-for-profit applied research and technical service company formed through collaboration between Laurentian University and the private and public sectors, and the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC), a semi-autonomous research and teaching centre whose focus is field-based, collaborative research on mineral deposits and their environments.

The university is also a key partner in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), the world's deepest underground laboratory that has been providing, since 1998, new clues on the composition of the sun and the origins of the universe.

In 2004, the university, along with Lakehead University, formed the Northern Ontario Medical School.

In addition, Laurentian University has an active partnership with St. Lawrence College Tri-campus.

The university is a member of L'Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne, a network of academic institutions of the Canadian Francophonie.

Undergraduate programs

Humanities

Computer Science
Communication Studies
English
French
Modern Languages and Literatures
Philosophy
Fine Arts, including Theatre, Motion Picture Arts, and Music
General Arts
Arts d'Expression
Theatre Arts
Music
Motion Picture Arts (Film)
Religious Studies
Women's Studies
Classical Studies
Folklore and Ethnology
Native Studies
Mathematics
Ethics Studies

Social Sciences

Anthropology
Economics
Geography
Gerontology
History
Labour and Trade Union Studies
Law and Justice
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Sports Psychology

Sciences

Behavioral neuroscience
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Environmental Earth Sciences
Forensic Science
Geology
Liberal Science
Mathematics
Physics
Zoology

Professional programs

Concurrent Education (English)
Consecutive Education (French)
Engineering
Human Kinetics
Midwifery
Native Human Services
Nursing
Social Work

School of Management

Commerce and Administration
Sports Administration

Faculty of Medicine

It is the first medical school in Canada to be opened during the Digital Age, NOSM's four-year Undergraduate Medical Education e-curriculum emphasizes the use of broadband technology to bridge the distance between campuses, and to facilitate an extensive distributed learning model that is unique in modern medical education.

Graduate programs

Laurentian offers a wide-variety of graduate programs, in both English and French.