We are proud of the opportunities we are able to offer to our graduate students. The University of British Columbia is one of Canada's top universities, located in a spectacular physical, as well as economically strategic setting on the western tip of the Point Grey peninsula in Vancouver. UBC's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is one of North America's top-ranking ECE departments. The department does research in a wide range of areas. We encourage students who are thinking of applying to our graduate program to browse the web sites of research groups and faculty members .
Graduate studies is, in effect, a partnership between the student and the faculty supervisor.
Individual faculty members have tremendous influence on which students are accepted into the program. Much of the research activity in the department involves collaboration with industrial partners, giving our graduate students opportunities for industrial interaction during their graduate work. We also collaborate with academic and government laboratories in Canada and throughout the world. We are able to offer many students financial support in the form of research assistantships paid from research grants or contracts. In addition, most graduate students have the opportunity to be employed as teaching assistants.