University of Winnipeg

The University of Winnipeg (U of W) is a public university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that offers undergraduate faculties of art, business and economics, education, science and theology as well as graduate programs. The U of W's founding colleges were Manitoba College and Wesley College, which merged to form United College in 1938. The University of Winnipeg was established in 1967 when United College received its charter.

Maclean's magazine and the Globe and Mail newspaper consistently rank the university in the top ten of all Canadian universities whose primary focus is undergraduate education in the category of student satisfaction. In 2011 the U of W ranked 10th out of 20 primarily undergraduate institutions. Research InfoSource ranks the University of Winnipeg last out of 50 schools in its annual list of top 50 research universities in Canada in terms of dollars spent on sponsored research expenditures.

The U of W was the first university in Canada to ban the sale of plastic bottled water on campus.