Like most secular Canadian schools, McMaster is a public university. The school, which boasts an impressive endowment of C$553, has 22,367 undergraduate and 3,408 graduate students from Canada and 92 foreign countries.
McMaster’s alumni form a vast 170,654-strong network residing in 137 countries. They include Canadian cabinet ministers, university presidents, Hollywood actors, Olympic athletes, astronauts, and intellectuals.
The student body is taught by 1,413 faculty members and clinicians from 70 nations, 94 percent of whom hold a doctorate. It is the only North American host site for a U.N. University: the Institute for Water, Environment, and Health.
McMaster has over 70 international exchange agreements. The university, with a library housing 1.24 million books, rests on a beautiful 377-acre campus that lends itself to outdoor activities.
Scholars affiliated with McMaster University, which is located between Toronto and Niagara Falls, have won Nobel Prizes, Lasker Awards, and Rhodes Scholarships.
