There are a total of 80 public universities in Canada, spread across all of the country’s provinces and territories. Of these, 24 are located in Ontario, 15 in Quebec, 11 in British Columbia, 7 in Alberta, 9 in Nova Scotia, 5 in Manitoba, 4 in New Brunswick, 2 in Saskatchewan, and 1 each in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, and Yukon. Details and links for each university can be found below.
University Name Primary Campus Location Number of Students Algoma University Sault Ste. Marie 1,150 Brock University St. Catharines 18,071 Carleton University Ottawa 29,361 Lakehead University Thunder Bay 7,722 Laurentian University Sudbury 9,043 McMaster University Hamilton 31,017 Nipissing University North Bay 5,400 Ontario College of Art and Design University Toronto 4,478 Queen’s University at Kingston Kingston 24,627 Royal Military College of Canada Kingston 1,700 Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto 38,723 Trent University Peterborough 9,437 Université de Hearst Hearst N/A Université de l’Ontario français Toronto N/A Université de Sudbury Sudbury N/A University of Guelph Guelph 29,069 Ontario Tech University Oshawa 9,984 University of Ottawa Ottawa 38,380 University of Toronto Toronto 84,158 University of Waterloo Waterloo 37,970 University of Western Ontario London 36,549 University of Windsor Windsor 15,649 Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo 19,421 York University Toronto 52,286
University Name Primary Campus Location Number of Students Bishop’s University Sherbrooke 2,260 Concordia University Montreal 43,944 École de technologie supérieure Montreal 10,600 École nationale d’administration publique Quebec City 1,880 Institut national de la recherche scientifique Quebec City 480 McGill University Montreal 32,514 Université de Montréal Montreal 55,540 Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke 19,500 Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue Rouyn-Noranda 2,650 Université du Québec en Outaouais Gatineau 5,450 Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Chicoutimi 6,170 Université du Québec à Montréal Montreal 41,670 Université du Québec à Rimouski Rimouski 5,430 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières 10,610 Université Laval Quebec City 37,800
University Name Primary Campus Location Number of Students Capilano University North Vancouver 7,500 Emily Carr University of Art and Design Vancouver 1,898 Kwantlen Polytechnic University Richmond 16,811 Royal Roads University Victoria 4,272 Simon Fraser University Burnaby 35,204 Thompson Rivers University Kamloops 13,172 University of British Columbia Vancouver 50,330 University of Victoria Victoria 22,405 University of the Fraser Valley Abbotsford 8,164 University of Northern British Columbia Prince George 3,558 Vancouver Island University Nanaimo 6,279
University Name Primary Campus Location Number of Students Yukon University Whitehorse 744
