Prospective faculty

President's
message

UVic is an intellectually vibrant place where both undergraduate and graduate students have ready access to some of the most dedicated and productive scholars - and the most inspiring teachers - across a wide variety of fields.

Read the entire message.

UVic and
University Rankings

The University of Victoria is recognized annually as one of Canada's top universities by external surveys and UVic students alike.

Times Higher Education

The University of Victoria has climbed to 130th in the world and sixth place in Canada in the Times Higher Education's 2010 World University Rankings. UVic was the top-ranked university in Canada without a medical school. There are nine Canadian universities in the top 200.

The global ranking is the only system that includes a section dedicated to the teaching and learning environment including the first-ever global survey of institutions teaching reputation.

For more information visit the Times Higher Education website.

Re$earch Infosource

In the 2010 ranking of Canada's research universities released by Re$earch Infosource, UVic tops all other comprehensive universities in Canada in two out of three measures of research performance over the last decade.

UVic is consistently named a Research University of the Year in Canada by Re$earch Infosource. This designation indicates that UVic "demonstrates superior achievement in earning research income and in publishing research in leading scientific journals."

For more information visit the Re$earch Infosource website.

Globe and Mail

In the 2011 Globe and Mail's Canadian University Report on students' overall satisfaction with their university experience, students ranked UVic highly for its quality of teaching and education. This large survey was administered over our entire undergraduate population.

The university received an A- for its environmental commitment, one of the highest marks in the country and was specifically cited for being top in quality education for medium-sized universities in arts, humanities and social sciences. The university received a B+ on overall student satisfaction indicators.

For more information visit the Globe and Mail website.

Maclean's

The University of Victoria has continually placed at or near the top of the comprehensive category in the annual university rankings by Maclean's magazine, and UVic's placement in the 2010 rankings is no different. UVic is in the number two spot for Canadian comprehensive universities and ranked particularly highly on faculty awards, medical science grants, and library acquisitions.

For more information on the rankings visit the Maclean's website.

Accountability

The University of Victoria is proud and grateful to benefit from significant support in the form of public funding, student tuition and private contributions. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of stewardship of these resources and our audited financial statements are publicly available. To ensure programming of the highest quality for our students, our faculty are evaluated annually, through students? teaching evaluations as well as by their department chair and dean. Departments are also subject to vigorous external review every five to seven years.

In addition, there are many ways in which the university provides a public accounting of its accomplishments and progress in fulfilling its mission.We invite you to share our pride in following this progress, much of which is documented on the Office of the President's website.

Governance
and history

The University of Victoria is governed by the University Act of BC.