The University of Calgary is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, before being instituted into a separate, autonomous university in 1966. It is composed of 14 faculties and over 85 research institutes and centres, and the main campus covers about 200 hectares in the northwest quadrant of the city near the Bow River. A member of the U15, it is one of Canada's top research universities, with faculty holding 80 Canada Research Chair positions and sponsored research revenue of 380.4 million dollars. It maintains close ties to the petroleum and geoscience industry through the Department of Geosciences and the Schulich School of Engineering.
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