University Of Waterloo Faculty Of Mathematics
The Faculty of Mathematics is one of six faculties of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. As of Fall 2010, it has 5,741 undergraduate students and 629 graduate students, 200 full-time professors, and offers over 500 courses in mathematics, statistics and computer science.
The Faculty also houses the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, which was formerly the faculty's computer science department.
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