University of Choice

At Laurentian, students benefit from small classes and meaningful interactions with faculty, staff, and students. Our students enjoy a unique connection between our learning and natural milieux affording students, faculty, and staff with an enriched learning, working, and living environment in a pristine park-like setting in Greater Sudbury and a vibrant presence in fast-growing Barrie.

ASPIRATION: Laurentian is a first choice destination with a reputation for academic excellence and opportunity, attracting the best students, staff, and faculty from across Canada and around the world.

To achieve this by 2017 we will have:

• Strategically increased enrolment from 7,200 FTE (2011) to 8,300 FTE while increasing the average entry grade from 80.8% to 83%
• Modernized the Sudbury campus, including classrooms designed flexibly to accommodate diverse teaching-learning styles
• Increased proportion of international students from 6.1% in 2011 to 8%
• Increased numbers of students who have enriched learning experiences abroad
• Become one hundred percent (100%) 802.11n wireless
• Established Laurentian as a destination for Francophone and Immersion students from across Canada and targeted French-speaking countries
• Increased enrolments of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students from across Canada who choose Laurentian for its culturally responsive learning environment and enhanced bursaries
• Opened a "front door/welcoming centre" with effective signage in French, English, Ojibway