Trinity Western University (TWU) is a private Christian liberal arts university in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
Founded in 1962, it enrolls approximately 3,500 students and sits on a rural 157-acre (64 ha) campus near the historic village of Fort Langley, British Columbia. Trinity Western is Canada's largest privately funded Christian university. It has a broad-based liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies curriculum, offering 45 undergraduate majors and 16 graduate and post-graduate programs. It has received an A+ rating in the Globe and Mail for its quality of education every year since 2005 and has a student to faculty ratio of 11:1 with an average class size of 16.
Trinity Western is a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Its varsity teams, known as the Spartans, are members of Canadian Interuniversity Sport. It is one of the most expensive universities in Canada for Canadian students.
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