LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY C-6

935 Ramsey Lake Rd.
Sudbury, ON, Canada P3E 2C6
Tel: (705)675-1151; Admissions: (705)675-1151; Fax: (705)675-4840; E-mail: [email protected]; Web Site: http://www.laurentian.ca/

Description: Province-supported, comprehensive, coed. Awards bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Founded 1960. Setting: 700-acre suburban campus. Endowment: $9 million. Research spending 2002-03: $1.3 million. Educational spending 2002-03: $10,971 per student. Total enrollment: 7,689. Faculty: (295 full-time). 10,402 applied. Students come from 6 provinces and territories, 38 other countries. Core. Calendar: Canadian standard year. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, accelerated degree program, honors program, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study.

Entrance Requirements: Options: Common Application, early admission. Required: high school transcript. Required for some: essay, 2 recommendations, interview. Entrance: minimally difficult. Application deadlines: 2/1, 2/1 for nonresidents.

Costs Per Year: Application fee: $50 Canadian dollars. Tuition, fee, and room and board charges are reported in Canadian dollars. Comprehensive fee: $8706 includes full-time tuition ($4184), mandatory fees ($337), and college room and board ($4185). College room only: $2660. Part-time tuition: $836 per course. Part-time mandatory fees: $24.80 per term. International student tuition: $10,087 full-time.

Collegiate Environment: Drama-theater group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Most popular organizations: Students General Association, Association des Etudiants Francophone, Association of Laurentian part-time Students. Major annual events: Students General Association Winter Carnival, Alumni Rendez-vous. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service. Option: coed housing available. J. N. Desmarais Library plus 3 others with 696,838 books and a Web page. Operations spending 2002-03: $2.9 million. 125 computers available on campus for general student use. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment: Sudbury is the largest city (population 90,000, region 160,100) in Northern Ontario. Thunder Bay is 300 miles to the West. Sudbury is 100 miles east of Sault Ste. Marie. The campus is on 750 acres of scenic countryside, surrounded by three lakes, just a 10-minute drive from the downtown area.