Type | Public |
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Established | March 19, 1969 |
Rector | Daniel McMahon |
Administrative staff
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1,781 employees |
Students | 14,500 students |
Undergraduates | 281 programs (total for university) |
Postgraduates | available |
Location |
3351, boulevard des Forges Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada G9A 5H7 |
Campus | Trois-Rivières (pavillon Ringuet), Victoriaville, Drummondville, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec City, Sorel-Tracy, Joliette & Centre Universitaire des Appalaches |
Sports teams | UQTR Patriotes |
Colours | &White |
Affiliations | UACC; CIS, QSSF, CBIE |
Website | https://www.uqtr.ca |
Coordinates: 46°21′2.04″N 72°34′34.67″W / 46.3505667°N 72.5762972°W
The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) (English: University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières), established in 1969 and located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, is a public university within the Université du Québec network. As of April 2016, the university had 14,500 students in 9 different campuses, including the main one in Trois-Rivières. About 788 of them come from overseas, from 50 countries. The university has given more than 88,000 diplomas since its founding. The Trois-Rivières campus also holds a large library with about 400,000 documents.
UQTR was created in 1969 with the merger of the "Centre d'Études universitaires de Trois-Rivières" and "L'école normale d'État Maurice Duplessis" (named after Maurice Duplessis). The first major campus, Ringuet, was opened in 1973 and is located in the vicinity of Des Forges and Des Récollets boulevards near downtown Trois-Rivières. Over the following years, UQTR has expanded outside of the city into several towns in the Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Lanaudière, Quebec and Chaudière-Appalaches regions. Over the 1973-2009 time period the university has enjoyed a period of long term growth punctuated by several periods of short term fluctuation.