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Waterloo, Ontario · Founded 1957 · Official site ↗
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Reputation & academic strength (100% editorial · no reviews yet). 84/100
How openly it publishes & sources its data. 70/100 · 3/4 signals
Canada's powerhouse for computer science, engineering and mathematics, built around the country's largest co-operative education program. Strong employer pipelines into tech and a maker/startup culture. Best for STEM-focused students who want paid work terms baked into the degree.
Derived from University of Waterloo's own published flagship or known-for programs. Used to weight our program-specific rankings.
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Our own grades, computed from objective public data, relative to other universities. This is the school's overall quality. Click any row to see how University of Waterloo compares on that attribute.
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Published by the institution or government and linked to the official source. These are what drive our outcome-based rankings. The exact calculation that produced the 90/100 score is shown below.
Each verified outcome is scored 0-100 against the range its peers actually publish, then blended by weight.
“Most recent data available: 2024 Cohort. Waterloo, 2024: 95.0%”
“OUGS all-institutions table — Waterloo 0.80% 83.50% 87.10% 96.30% — Graduation Rate 83.5%”
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See which decision facts the school publishes and sources.
How openly University of Waterloo publishes the data families need, keeps it current, and links it to an official source. We score whether the data exists, not the results themselves. Each signal's source and its share of the 70/100 are shown below.
Each signal can earn a share of 100 points equal to its weight; a partly-met signal earns proportionally less. The points below add up to the score.
3 of 3 outcome metrics sourced · 2 via official government dataset
v1 scores objective, automatically-checkable signals. Editorial clarity assessments (admission rubric, website, policies), grounded in University of Waterloo's own pages and human-reviewed before publishing, are being added.
University of Waterloo offers programs across 10 fields, listed below at the program level. All 39 are confirmed on University of Waterloo's official programs page. Program outcomes roll up into the verified school-level figures above. We don't yet have verified program-level stats for these, so we mark each Unverified rather than show an estimate.
Program list compiled from University of Waterloo's published program areas and flagship programs. Program pages may inherit verified school-wide outcomes, but we do not present those as program-specific results.
1 of 5 facts currently link to verified official sources.
Every statistic on this page carries an evidence label. 1 of 5 stats currently link to a verified official source; the rest are marked Unverified until we confirm them against an official page. We never invent a citation to fill the gap.
An automated checker re-verifies every official source on this page on a daily schedule. If a source page moves, breaks, or changes, it's flagged and the figure is held out of our rankings until it's re-confirmed against the official page. Most recent run for University of Waterloo: September 29, 2026. How we keep this current →
Data as of June 2026. Verified official pages are listed in the sidebar. Our citation policy → · Our accuracy log →
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Answers to what families search for about University of Waterloo, built only from the sourced data on this page. We leave a question out rather than answer it with a number we can't back.
Our editorial estimate is around 90%; University of Waterloo does not publish an official figure.
Domestic tuition is about $7,400/yr; international tuition is about $49,000/yr.
Yes, University of Waterloo offers co-op programs.
Yes, University of Waterloo offers on-campus residence.
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See where it places among Canadian universities on verifiable student outcomes.
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“OUGS all-institutions table — Waterloo 0.80% 83.50% 87.10% 96.30% — Graduate Employment Rate (2 Years) 96.3%”
All 3 outcome metrics are verified to an official source.
2 reachable official links; value verification is scored separately
We score whether the data EXISTS and is sourced, not the results themselves. A school is never penalized here for a low outcome, only for not publishing one.