The University of Guelph is a university in southern Ontario with three campuses, a large student body, and a focus on career-focused disciplines.
The University of Guelph is located in southern Ontario, just an hour outside Toronto. Its campus is home to more than 36,000 students from across Canada and the world. The university has over 215,000 alumni living in 150 countries.
The University of Guelph has three campuses: Guelph Campus, Ridgetown Campus, and Guelph-Humber Campus. The main campus includes 400 acres of trails and forests and can be crossed on foot in about 10 minutes. Twenty GO Buses arrive on campus each weekday. Listed facilities include lecture halls, athletic facilities, dining halls, a library, and student residences. The university has more than 300 student clubs, and Maclean's ranks its campus food as number one.
The University of Guelph offers over 75 undergraduate majors in career-focused disciplines. Students have access to over 4,000 co-op opportunities as part of experiential learning. According to the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, the university's subjects rank first in Canada and in the top 50 in the world.
Maclean's ranks the University of Guelph fifth among Canada's best mid-size universities for 2027. The QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2026, places the university among the world's best in 15 subject areas. The Times Higher Education ranks it in the top 150 in the world for Life Sciences, 2026.