McMaster University McMaster University Latin: Universitas Macmastrensis Rank: 144th worldwide McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is located near the residential neighborhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Gardens. The university bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian senator and banker who bequeathed C$900,000 to its founding.[10] It was incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1887, merging the Toronto Baptist College with Woodstock College. It opened in Toronto in 1890. Inadequate facilities and the gift of land in Hamilton prompted its relocation in 1930 and The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec controlled the university until it became a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution in 1957. In 2017, the university owned and managed 58 buildings, including both on and off campus housing. It has four regional campuses, Downtown Hamilton, Burlington, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Niagara. McMaster's main campus is divided into three main areas such as Core Campus, North Campus and West Campus. The Core Campus has most of the university's academic, research and residential buildings, while the North Campus is made up of the university's athletic precinct and a small amount of surface parking. The West Campus is the least developed area of the main campus, containing only a few buildings, surface parking, and undeveloped land. McMaster university operates six academic faculties namely the DeGroote School of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Science and Science and being a member of U15, university provides the highest standard of the education as it also places 14th in the world out of 1,200 universities from across 98 countries. In addition to McMaster's renowned medical school, the Faculties of Engineering and Business are complimented with commitment to teaching and research in the Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences and Science. Along with this, top programs the university offers Civil engineering, metallurgical engineering, clinical medicine, transportation science and engineering, computer science and engineering, statistics, and nursing were all ranked among the top 100 such programs in the world. Throughout McMaster's history, faculty, alumni, and former students have played prominent roles in many fields, accumulating several awards including Nobel prizes, Rhode’s scholarships, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and the Lasker Award. Prominent alumni in the field of science include Douglas L. Coleman, who discovered Leptin. Government officials Croatian Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković and Lincoln Alexander, the former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Business leaders like Stephen Elop, former President and CEO of NOKIA. Comedian and actors like Eugene Levy, Martin Short and Jonathan Frid. McMaster Marauders, university varsity team competes in Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports. The university’s team sports programs include baseball, basketball, football, volleyball, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, swimming, ringette, and water polo. Resent innovation, Chemical engineering professor Heather Sheard own was named Innovator of the Year as he developed 2 inventions, the material for intra-ocular lenses used in the treatment of cataracts and material designed to deliver therapeutic drugs to the back of the eye in a controlled and sustained manner.