Thompson Rivers University
Other name | TRU |
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Former names | List
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| Motto | Secwepemctsín: T7ETSXEMÍNTE RE STSELXMÉM |
Motto in English | "To strive ahead," indicating that the journey of learning is enduring and unremitting. |
| Type | Public research university |
| Established | October 1970 |
| Founder | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia |
| Accreditation | Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities |
| Chair | Hee-Young Chung |
| Chancellor | DeDe DeRose |
| President | Brett Fairbairn |
| Vice-president | Matt Milovick, Brian Daly, Baihua Chadwick, Shannon Wagner |
| Provost | Gillian Balfour |
Academic staff | About 500 (as of 2022) |
| Students | 12,812 FTE, 27,701 total including on campus, online and dually enrolled, part and full time |
| Location | Kamloops and Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada |
| Campus | Urban |
| Sport Teams | Thompson Rivers WolfPack |
| Colours | TRU Blue TRU Sage |
| Nickname | TRU WolfPack |
| Affiliations | U Sports, AUCC, IAU, CVU, CWUAA, CBIE, CUP, Research Universities Council of British Columbia, CICan, UnivCan |
| Website | www |
Thompson Rivers University (commonly referred to as TRU) is a public research university located in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The university's name comes from the two rivers which converge in Kamloops, the North Thompson and South Thompson.
The university has five academic faculties, the smallest being the Faculty of Law and the largest being the Faculty of Science, as well as three schools: the Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics, the School of Nursing, and the School of Trades and Technology. The university's honours college is Canada's first such college. In addition to its primary campus in Kamloops, the university has a satellite campus in Williams Lake and a distance education division, TRU-Open Learning.
TRU is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities at the associate, baccalaureate and master's degree levels. In 2023, TRU was named one of Canada's Top 50 Research Universities, and as of 2025 is one of the thirteen universities worldwide to hold a "Platinum" rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.