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The University of Waterloo, also known as "UW" or simply "Waterloo", is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The enrollment for 2003 was 21,550 undergraduate and 2,485 graduate students, with 787 full-time faculty members. The University was founded in 1957.

1 History and profile

The University of Waterloo was originally conceived in 1955 as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties (WCAF), a semi-autonomous entity within Waterloo College (now Wilfrid Laurier University). Its first classes began in 1957, and two years later it became the University of Waterloo. From its relatively recent and humble origin, UW has come to the forefront of research in Canada. The University of Waterloo now attracts many bright students from across Canada and is widely recognized as one of Canada's premier universities. It is also known for its longstanding undergraduate distance education programs.

Waterloo is famous for being the groundbreaking proponent of co-operative education in Canada and currently maintains the largest such program in the world. Due to this, Waterloo has established strong ties with many major corporations in North AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocea. In the annual Maclean's MagazineMaclean's Magazine is Canada's leading weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt. John Bayne Maclean. The 43-year-old trade magazine publisher purchased an advertising agency's in-house business journal — along wit university rankings, Waterloo consistently scores within the top three positions in its category (research-intensive institutions with a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs without medical schools). Since the beginning of Maclean's reputational rankings, Waterloo has placed first overall out of all Canadian universities for 11 years in a row ( 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi- 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom). This remarkable feat ended when Waterloo slipped to second place overall in the 2003 rankings. As of November 8th, 2004 the University of Waterloo has once again placed first overall in Macleans University rankings for the Comprehensive category and all Reputation categories.

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With strong programs in mathematics, science, computer science, and engineering, the University has at times been touted as the MIT of Canada. It is the home of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research and the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing . Additionally, the prowess of Waterloo's students in academic competitions such as the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest has greatly contributed to the University's reputation in the last few decades.