Simon Fraser University is a comprehensive university voted among Canada’s top schools by Maclean’s Magazine. The mountaintop campus hosts 25,000 full-time students, more than 1000 faculty and innumerable staff, all at 300 metres (1200 feet) above the depths of Burrard Inlet on Greater Vancouver’s northeastern edge.
The campus itself is in the City of Burnaby, a suburban city of more than 220,000 people in 98 square kilometers. The city plays host to residents from every corner of the globe, and Greater Vancouver remains one of the world’s most ethnically diverse urban centres.
SFU is known for, among other things, our multi-world-championship-winning Pipe Band, which ushers in Convocation every year; the Burnaby campus’ distinctive architectural style, designed by award-winning architects Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey; our famously terrible winter road conditions; and radical activism that has characterized the school and its students from the TA protests of the 60’s to the lead up to the Battle In Seattle in the 90’s.
