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University of Waterloo

📍 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Overview

Operating on a semester academic calendar, the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada, is academically distinguished by its active research in quantum information and cryptography, quantum computing algorithms and architecture, and cosmology and gravitation theories. Its scholarly output comprises 159,000 published research works with an h-index of 777, reflecting a substantial and influential body of academic contribution across these fields.

Subject Strengths

University of Waterloo's strongest subject areas, based on published research output, are Physical Sciences and Health Sciences.

Physical Sciences
100/100
Health Sciences
100/100

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