The University of Saskatchewan (USask) is a Canadian public research university, founded on March 19, 1907. USask main campus is located in the vibrant city of Saskatoon on Treaty 6 territory and the traditional homeland of the Métis.

• USask is ranked #1 in water resources research in Canada

• 169,000 Alumni

• 2 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

• In 1948, the university built the first betatron facility in Canada.

• Three years later, the world's first non-commercial cobalt-60 therapy unit was constructed. (The first female chancellor of the university, Sylvia Fedoruk, was a member of the cobalt-60 research team. She also served as Saskatchewan's lieutenant-governor from 1988 to 1994.)

• The success of these facilities led to the construction of a linear accelerator as part of the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory in 1964 and placed university scientists at the forefront of nuclear physics in Canada.

• The Plasma Physics Laboratory operates a tokamak on campus.

• The university used the SCR-270 radar in 1949 to image the Aurora for the first time.

• In all, 72 graduates of the University of Saskatchewan have gone on to receive the Rhodes Scholarship. These include Wilbur Jackett (1933) and Mark Abley (1975).

• Undergraduate program

• Postgraduate program