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The 'Université de Sherbrooke' is a large university with three distinct campuses, two of which are located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, and another, located in Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal approximately 170 km west of Sherbrooke. It is one of two universities, and the only French-language university, in the Estrie region of Quebec. In 2006, the university opened a branch of its medical facility on the campus of UQAC, where its students enrol for non-medical courses.
The Université de Sherbrooke has a student population of more than 30,000, of which 11,500 are full-time students. There are nine faculties at the university: Management, Law, Education, Physical Education, Engineering, Letters and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine - Université de Sherbrooke, Science, and Theology, Philosophy and Ethics. It is the only university outside of Quebec's large urban centres with a medical school and a law school.
The Université de Sherbrooke is Quebec's only remaining officially Catholic university, the others maintaining a secular environment. One consequence of this is that the Theology, Philosophy and Ethics faculty's theological programs are mainly Catholic-oriented. However, the other faculties are not influenced religiously and there is no apparent religiosity on the campus. The faculty also offers certificate and master's degree programmes in Eastern Orthodox theology and awards degrees to graduates of the Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy, Canada's Greek Orthodox seminary. However, the university is headed by its chancellor, which, in conformity with the "Loi relative à l'Université de Sherbrooke", section 7, and the university's statutes, is Sherbrooke's Roman Catholic archbishop. The chancellor's powers include the naming of its administrative council.
The university was the first French-language and second Canadian university to offer co-operative education programs to its students, which give them hands-on, practical work experience along with the education they receive in the classroom. The Université de Sherbrooke was also the first university to offer an MBA (Master of Business Administration) program in French, the first in Canada to provide a master's degree in taxation and the first in Quebec to provide a bachelor's degree in management with a co-op component.
The university recently opened a new biotechnology building, located beside the science faculty. It also recently announced the creation of a partnership with motorized-vehicle producer Bombardier Recreational Products to build a research center for new technologies in mechanics.
The university was founded on May 4, 1954. Initially, the university was located at the Séminaire Saint-Charles Borromée (now Séminaire de Sherbrooke) in downtown Sherbrooke.
The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Sherbrooke Vert-et-Or.

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Facts

★ Bruno-Marie Béchard is the youngest rector of any university in North America.

★ The Centre de Calcul Scientifique maintains the first most powerful cluster in Canada, which is named "Mammouth" and has over 2000 CPUs. Funds for this project where obtained by Réseau québécois de calcul de haute performance (RQCHP).

Rectors

★ 1954 – 1955: Mgr. Maurice Vincent

★ 1955 – 1965: Mgr. Irénée Pinard

★ 1965 – 1975: Mgr. Roger Maltais

★ 1975 – 1981: Yves Martin

★ 1981 – 1985: Claude Hamel

★ 1985 – 1993: Aldée Cabana

★ 1993 – 2001: Pierre Reid

★ 2001 – present: Bruno-Marie Béchard

See also

★ Bishop's University

★ List of Quebec universities

★ Faculté d'ingénierie de l'Université de Sherbrooke

External links

★ Université de Sherbrooke (in French)

★ Centre de calcul scientifique (in French)

★ Pôle universitaire

★ Engineering faculty (in French)

★ Law School (in French)

★ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (in French)

★ Faculty of Sciences (in French)

★ Faculty of Music (in French)

★ Faculty of Education (in French)

★ Faculty of Business (in French)

★ Charter and Statutes (in French)