Wilfrid Laurier University is a university in Waterloo, Ontario, with locations across southern Ontario and Toronto.
Wilfrid Laurier University is located at 75 University Avenue West in Waterloo, Ontario. Laurier is devoted to excellence in learning, research, scholarship and creativity. The university aims to foster a culture that inspires lives of leadership and purpose, and to support high-quality undergraduate, graduate and professional education while emphasizing co-curricular development of the whole student.
Laurier has nine faculties and offers more than 100 academic programs, taught by award-winning faculty. The co-op office connects students with paid jobs that integrate academics with real-world experience. Students may also have hands-on research opportunities, including work with nanomaterials or disadvantaged children.
Students and postdoctoral fellows have won prestigious provincial and national awards for research on topics such as food security in African cities, forests in the Arctic, spinal cord injury, and Indigenous female identity. Times Higher Education ranked Laurier among the top 12% of global universities and the top 10 universities in Canada in its 2026 Sustainability Impact Rankings.
Laurier has 22 varsity teams, including baseball, basketball, curling, football, hockey, lacrosse, rugby, soccer and swimming. The Faculty of Music hosts more than 100 public concerts, recitals, workshops and other community events every year. Facilities include the Laurier Library, Robert Langen Art Gallery, Library Makerspace, podcasting studios and Laurier Archives. Brantford campus students may have the chance to take part in the Research Apprenticeship Program.
Laurier offers admission routes for Ontario high school applicants applying through OUAC, students studying outside Ontario, mature students and other undergraduate applicant types, international undergraduate applicants, and graduate admissions.