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Motto | Aletheuontes de en Agape "Speaking the truth in love" |
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Type | Public |
Established | 1890 |
Academic affiliations | AUCC, IAU, ACU, CUSID, Campus Manitoba, CUP. |
Endowment | C$34 million[1] |
Chancellor | Mary Jane McCallum |
President | David Docherty |
Students | 2,980 |
Undergraduates | 2,590 |
Postgraduates | 390 |
Location | , Manitoba , Canada |
Campus | Urban |
Colours | Blue & gold |
Nickname | Brandon Bobcats |
Sporting affiliations | U Sports |
Mascot | Bailey the Bobcat |
Website | www |
Brandon University is a university located in the city of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, with an enrolment of approximately 3,375 (2020) full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students.[2] The current location was founded on July 13, 1899, as Brandon College as a Baptist institution. It was chartered as a university by then President John E. Robbins on June 5, 1967. The enabling legislation is the Brandon University Act.[3] Brandon University is one of several predominantly undergraduate liberal arts and sciences institutions in Canada.[4]
The university is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) and a member of U Sports. Brandon University has a student-to-faculty ratio of 11 to 1 and sixty percent of all classes have fewer than 20 students.[4] The university press, The Quill, is a member of CUP.