Brandon University
Former name | Brandon College |
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| Motto | Aletheuontes de en Agape "Speaking the truth in love" |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1899 |
Academic affiliations | AUCC, IAU, ACU, CUSID, Campus Manitoba, CUP. |
| Endowment | C$34 million |
| Chancellor | Mary Jane McCallum |
| President | David Docherty |
| Students | 2,980 |
| Undergraduates | 2,590 |
| Postgraduates | 390 |
| Location | , Manitoba , Canada |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colours | Blue & gold |
| Nickname | Brandon Bobcats |
Sporting affiliations | U Sports |
| Mascot | Bailey the Bobcat |
| Website | www |
Brandon University is a university located in the city of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, with an enrolment of approximately 3,375 (2020) full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students. The current location was founded on July 13, 1899, as Brandon College as a Baptist institution. It was chartered as a university by then President John E. Robbins on June 5, 1967. The enabling legislation is the Brandon University Act. Brandon University is one of several predominantly undergraduate liberal arts and sciences institutions in Canada.
The university is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) and a member of U Sports. Brandon University has a student-to-faculty ratio of 11 to 1 and sixty percent of all classes have fewer than 20 students. The university press, The Quill, is a member of CUP.