University of British Columbia Okanagan

The University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus is a campus of the University of British Columbia, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. It is home to close to 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The 209 hectares campus is the research and innovation hub in the southern interior of the province, in British Columbia's scenic Okanagan Valley.
The current site of UBC Okanagan was originally used by Okanagan University College, which had been founded in 1989 as a part of a plan by the government to improve access to post-secondary education in the Southern Interior British Columbia. Originally degrees were awarded in partnership with other universities, but by 1995, the university college began granting degrees in its own name. In the late 1990s, Okanagan University College began lobbying efforts to gain full university status.

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