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Learn how we advance UBC’s global strategic priorities
Meet our new Vice-Provost, International, pro tem
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UBC 'in service' – global engagement for a better world
UBC has an important role to play in leveraging the university’s resources to build a just, sustainable society. We are committed to educating students as global citizens and working with partners large and small on addressing some of the greatest challenges to humanity and the planet.
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UBC experts talk higher ed best practices with Vietnam university administrators
To enhance Canada’s people-to-people connections with Southeast Asia, colleagues met in August to share insights and experiences
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Shining a spotlight on the long-running Indigenous water access crisis
Decolonizing government policies are key to solving the lack of clean drinking water in communities across Canada, UBC undergrads find
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Making wheat stand up to scorching climate change weather events
UBC physics under grad is using synthetic biology to mitigate the effects of global warming on our food systems
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Using mixed-reality tools to bolster nurse training
UBCO undergrads demo innovative new tool at global conference Sept. 27
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UBC students: Apply now for global exchange funding!
Go Global’s Pathfinder Award offset travel and study costs for summer programs and term-based exchange abroad
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UBC Global Facts + Stats
1stNorth America’s most international university (Times Higher Education, 2022)
13thWorldwide for delivering on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (Times Higher Education, 2022)
300+Partnerships with universities + research institutions around the globe
Uncovering tradition, community and emotion — with lots of hugs — in on-location Asian migration course
Students went on a journey retracing the footsteps of early Asian migrants who settled on BC's Pacific Coast as part of UBC's class, Food, Farms and Funerals: The Heritage of Chinese Migration. Learn more.