Motto | Lux et Veritas Floreant |
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Motto in English
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Let Light and Truth Flourish |
Type | Public |
Established | 1871 Manitoba College. Subsequent names, Wesley College (1881), United College (1938), and now, The University of Winnipeg (1967–present) |
Endowment | $37.8 million |
President | Annette Trimbee |
Academic staff
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approx. 361 |
Administrative staff
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approx. 444 |
Students | 10,106 (2013) |
Undergraduates | 9,868 |
Postgraduates | 238 |
Location |
515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 2E9 |
Campus | Urban |
Sports team | Winnipeg Wesmen |
Affiliations | AUCC, IAU, ATS, U Sports, CWUAA, UArctic, Campus Manitoba, CUP, Gallery 1C03 |
Mascot | Wesley Coyote |
Website | www |
Coordinates: 49°53′24.44″N 97°9′12.12″W / 49.8901222°N 97.1533667°W
The University of Winnipeg (UWinnipeg) is a public university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that offers undergraduate faculties of art, business and economics, education, science and kinesiology and applied health as well as graduate programs. UWinnipeg's founding colleges were Manitoba College and Wesley College, which merged to form United College in 1938. The University of Winnipeg was established in 1967 when United College received its charter. The governance was modeled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate (faculty), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors (citizens) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters. The president, appointed by the board, was a link between the bodies to perform institutional leadership.
UWinnipeg's current President and Vice-Chancellor is Annette Trimbee, succeeding Lloyd Axworthy who served from 2004 to 2014.
Maclean's magazine and the Globe and Mail newspaper consistently rank the university in the top fifteen of all Canadian universities whose primary focus is undergraduate education in the category of student satisfaction. In 2013 the U of W ranked 13th out of 19 primarily undergraduate institutions.