Today’s challenges and opportunities are borderless — just like knowledge and talent. If you want to be relevant, you’ve got to be global.

By the numbers

International students:

• 35 per cent graduate
• 13 per cent undergraduate

Waterloo’s international reach: More than 174,000 alumni in 146 countries

International faculty: 322

WATERLOO STUDENTS IN THE WORLD:

• 2,000+ co-op students on international work terms each year
• Goal: 30 per cent undergraduate students studying or working abroad

Academic partnerships include:

• Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel — quantum, water and nanotechnology
• Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France — water, nanotechnology, energy, aging and political science
• Soochow University, Suzhou, China — nanotechnology
• Nanjing University, Nanjing, China — Nanjing-Waterloo Institute for Advanced Studies
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil — computer science
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany — all Faculties
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China — quantum and computer science
• Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey, Mexico — engineering and social development studies
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea — engineering, science and computer science
• University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K. — political science and social sciences

Global agency research relationships include:

• World Bank, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
• NATO, Brussels, Belgium
• United Nations, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
• Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
• International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada
• World Vision Canada, Mississauga, ON, Canada
• Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, ON, Canada
• Erasmus Mundus, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Countries where co-op students are working (2013):

Countries where students are engaging in non-co-op experiential learning (2013):

Top five countries of origin for new international graduate students (2013):

Top five countries of origin for new international undergraduate students (2013):

Collaborative degree programs (2013):

Top 10 countries alumni call home (2013):