Set up in 1965, the Simon Fraser University is Canada’s leading university with campuses in British Columbia’s largest municipalities — Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey. Noted Canadian architects Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey designed the original Burnaby Mountain campus. It has been ranked among Canada’s top comprehensive universities and named in the Times Higher Education list of 100 world universities under 50. SFU is also the first Canadian member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the world’s largest college sports association.
The university houses the following faculties:
- Athletics
- Beedie School of Business
- Faculty of Applied Sciences
- Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Environment
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Faculty of Science
The researchers work across the arts, humanities and sciences to advance knowledge in the key areas set out in the Strategic Research Plan. The University has been highly successful in attracting research funding from agencies such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and other Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence such as Auto21 and MITACS. For more information https://www.gyandhan.com/schools/simon-fraser-university