Honestly, this university is riding on cherry picked reputations achieved years ago. They sold and manipulated me to pursue an undergraduate degree here. Although you'll find some good associate professors on the undergraduate side, going to upper years, especially in the engineering department, they may be super smart and super innovative on the research side, but from a teaching perspective, they make it ever so hard to even enjoy the content you're attempting to learn either because they cannot convey the material sufficiently or put unreasonable regulations and expectations of students. At this university, they assume good researcher = good teacher. Wrong. There is no standards for teaching which means you'll get professors all across the spectrum with no consistency whatsoever. And don't get me started on admin, if you need anything from them, you'll either spend hours on hold or wait weeks for emails to be replied to. The co-op program? There's nothing special about it. They advertise there's an 80% placement rate but it's all government jobs. Government jobs have not helped me further my career, in my honest opinion. I've gotten better jobs looking for internships on my own. I've even found the cleanliness of the various facilities to be abysmal at best; if you want to build new buildings (which is fine), but at least maintain the buildings you already have. Website is hard to navigate, jobs on campus are hard to find and they are relatively disorganized as well. Some pros however, are the location (you're conviently located near the heart of the downtown core) and maybe the high-traffic bus terminals (you'll never miss a bus because there will probably be another one in 5-10 minutes. I wish I had more nice things to say. Too bad.

This is the university to choose to connect with Canada's next political leaders. The staff here are highly efficient, the affordable university buffet with the biggest selection + gaming systems built in is second to none, and the staff eagerly connect students with scholarship opportunities to intern or study abroad. I did 2 exchanges in Paris & Hong Kong through UOttawa's business school and was put in a program paying $4000 (in addition to internship salary) to do a summer internship in China or the United States. Clubs here are plentiful, and the campus population is very accepting of individual differences. Location? Always lots going on in Downtown Ottawa, just across the street from campus. Fellow Ontarians, note that 18 is the legal drinking age in the Quebec half of this city, you're legal from year 1, unlike in other Ontarian cities. Take my word for it, in comparison to schools like ESSEC France, UOttawa is top notch (shots fired at ESSEC! You'll know what I'm talking about if you've exchanged there.)

The University of Ottawa was first established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the first bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa, Joseph-Bruno Guigues.Placed under the direction of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, it was renamed the College of Ottawa in 1861 and received university status five years later through a royal charter.On 5 February 1889, the university was granted a pontifical charter by Pope Leo XIII, elevating the institution to a pontifical university.The university was reorganized on July 1, 1965, as a corporation, independent from any outside body or religious organization. As a result, the civil and pontifical charters were kept by the newly created Saint Paul University, federated with the university. The remaining civil faculties were retained by the reorganized university.

I spent a year her on exchange from the UK. Overall I was very dissatisfied with the quality of teaching here and wouldn’t recommend. The first week was very welcoming with my department and I really enjoyed it, but this was all thanks to the economics department themselves rather than the university. Many of the lecture halls I had were rather dull. I had the food pass at the canteen which I thought was expensive but the offering of food was pretty decent, think I gained about 8kg in the time I was here from over eating. University location in the capital itself is rather good and the campus itself is designed well.

An excellent and beautiful university. It was founded in 1848 as the College of Bytown by the Mary Missionaries. Currently, this public university has more than 3,000 staff members and more than 34,000 students. Almost 70% of the classes are given in English and the rest in French. It has residences for the students, a Bioscience complex, Advance Research complex, Faculty of Engineering, Campus Boutique, Morisset Library, Languages Institute, Music School, Minto Sports Complex, Fitness Centre, Matt Anthony Field, Faculty of Education and many other facilities and things.

It is a decent University, however, it seems to be riding on a reputation that was awarded many years ago. Carleton University used to be in a distant 2nd for the Ottawa area, now, not so sure. Ottawa University needs to really improve. STOP favouring French speaking over all others. Raise the bar once more. I understand that there is a huge gap in the market for French universities in the area, that is NO reason to lower standards. If anything, it should raise them. Excell my location. Residence meal plan too pricey and needs much improvement. #localguide

I was admitted to a part-time Master's Degree program here and was very excited about it. However, their admissions team (or the lack thereof) never really answered any of my questions about the delivery and the structure of the program despite emailing them numerous times. I got so sick and tired of it that I decided to pass on the degree. It was a very unfortunate and upsetting experience. This is supposed to be a prestigious institution located in our nation's capitol but they have absolutely nobody to talk to with respect to admissions.

Literally nobody is picking up the phone, and I have probably contacted multiple people at this point. If your institution claims to care so much about "mental health" why not be more helpful to students. COVID is over, why not open up the phone lines??? Getting an email response takes way too long and I only get automated responses saying they are experiencing a "high number of emails". Maybe if you'd open up the phone lines you wouldn't have such an influx of emails!!! Disappointed and beyond frustrated.

Central location and clean amenities. Students are generally helpful. Feels multicultural. I would have loved to give uOttawa many stars but the treatment Part-time Professors receive is disappointing. PT profs are underpaid, and, in some cases, their payments are delayed!!! Does the university care? Unfortunately, the rift is wide between decision makers and change makers, PT Profs who shape education on the ground and who speak up for their rights regardless of being ignored, excluded or belittled!

I graduated in 2012 with a BSc in chemistry. The education was awesome and the experiences I had were also awesome. The faculty is super nice to you when your trying to get in. But once your in pray to god you don't have a conflict with schedules or switching majors or minors. I invested 5 years worth of time and at the end of it got a job. Since 2012 I have had 3 different jobs all in a very related field to my major.

Small compact campus so you dont have to walk too much, reasonably wheelchair accessible, has an elevated tunnel system between most of the buildings so you can stay inside. Has direct access to the otrain line 1. There are several pedestrian only roads for getting around safely. The classrooms are for the most part well laid out and spacious enough. There are several food and drink options around campus too.

My time as a student at the University of Ottawa will always be very memorable due to the amazing staff and students that I crossed paths with. As an international student, I was very lucky to have professors who bestowed a lot of trust in me and were always there to guide me. It was also an amazing journey of full of opportunities as well as personal and professional growth.

The first year of my master program here, I was fine. The course was interesting. The professors seemed wanting to help students out. However, when I was doing my internship in my second year, I met a very horrible internship supervisor. She was psychological and verbal abusive toward me. Somehow the faculty members did nothing to help me. Disappointed.

For just visiting or using the space: lots of nice outdoor spaces with access to plugs and shade, inside plenty of water fountains and places with mirrors, decent views in both. Attending the actual unniversity: a fun campus vibe access to academic research and interesting programs and clubs(from my experience)

My limited time here was pretty good. Professors were a mixed bag from not so good to amazingly engaging. As with any education, it's what you make of it. I made a lot of great friends in a short time and I think it's an excellent school. The campus is beautiful and many of the buildings are gorgeous.

Very helpful and clear guidance for students. The faculty admistrative department is readily available to answer student queries in person. There are other universities in Ottawa who are still working remotely and students find it very difficult incase of queries and there is no in person guidance.

How can the University provide proper education when one of its professors, Ivan Katchanovski, teaches at the School of Political Studies and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs? This guy is just a valuable russian asset and continues to teach East European history.

The biggest scam of a students career, don’t waste your money on the cold, lifeless overly woke “bilingual” (it’s only french they care about) useless excuse for a university. You couldn’t get me to go back there if they paid for my entire education.

The school tries really hard to rectify any mistakes it makes, its affordable (im from ontario) thanks to OSAP, their teachers are really nice and they have adapted tremendously to the needs of Covid.

We were at the arena of the GG's. The main arena is very. The practice one is just that for practice with no spectators unless you go to 2nd level to watch. A nice bilingual University in Ottawa.

Great bilingual university in the national capital!! Large variety of programs offered. Some of their student services could be improved though.

Average Campus. Nice greenery and Parks. Lots of old and historic buildings. Not very clean and not as well maintained. Old area of the city.

I taught a geographic information systems workshop here and the facilities were wonderful and everyone was so nice.

(Oct 13, 2017) A really nice and cozy university. If they accept me I will move in a heart beat

Students go back next week .. we checked out the place, before it got busy.

French and English friendly. Located in downtown Ottawa, easy bus access.

Its a good place to visit while I was conferencing in Ottawa.

Great university! Very nice campus, very stylish building!

Beautiful university lots of prospective students!

Beautiful well kept campus.