UVic Facts

HONORARY DEGREES CONFERRED

September 2003
Mary Robinson, Ireland's first woman president, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

November 2003
Dr. Alan Astbury, UVic physicist, renowned particle physicist Robert Bateman, leading wildlife artist and conservationist Frank Calder, founding member of the Nisga'a Tribal Council, first Aboriginal cabinet minister in Canada Diana Krall, Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist and pianist

June 2004
Dr. Morris Cohen, health information pioneer Jane Heffelfinger, Victoria arts activist and fundraiser Richard Hunt, respected Kwagiulth artist Stephen Lewis, UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Claire L'Heureux-Dub‚, retired Supreme Court of Canada justice Percy Wilkinson, Victoria educator and public servant

UVIC IS PEOPLE

• UVic student enrolment, 2003/04: 18,415, including 2,359 graduate students
• 67,756 alumni
• 4,287 employees
• 701 regular faculty

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

UVic is a leader in experiential learning, with western Canada's largest university co-operative education program, integrating academic studies with relevant paid work experience in more than 40 academic areas. In 2003/04, UVic co-op students completed 2,547 work term placements across Canada and in 34 other countries.

UVic graduates report the highest level of satisfaction among all BC university grads: 97 per cent of UVic graduates report that they are "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with their choice of programs, and 96 per cent rate the quality of instruction as "very good" or "good."

UVic has more than 100 active educational exchange programs with institutions in 30 countries around the world.

LEADERSHIP IN RESEARCH

UVic researchers were awarded $59.1 million in outside research grant and contract funding in 2003/04. UVic leads all other comprehensive universities in Canada in size and number of medical and science grants per faculty member.

UVic researchers had an astounding 94 per cent success rate in this year's competition for research funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

UVic is one of the top three comprehensive universities in Canada in size and number of social sciences and humanities research grants per faculty member.

A VALUED COMMUNITY RESOURCE

UVic generates $1.478 billion annually in economic activity, including such direct and indirect expenditures as salaries and benefits, student and visitor spending, taxes, spin-off companies, patents and licenses and the effects of an educated workforce.

UVic is a major cultural resource for the community. Each year, plays, concerts, ceremonies, art exhibitions, conferences, community educational programs, public lectures, films and athletic events at UVic attract a combined audience of nearly 600,000.

UVic's Innovation and Development Corporation has assisted 25 UVic spin- off companies and filed patents for 45 new inventions based on UVic research.