The University of British Columbia (English, University of British Columbia: UBC) is a network composed of two public universities in British Columbia: University of British Columbia Okanagan University of British Columbia Vancouver, the latter being the main campus.
The University of British Columbia is present in several university rankings. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 of the 30th world class and second Canada.1. The Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2012 39th class world and second in Canada, 2 3. In addition, the ranking of the best universities outside the United States by Newsweek magazine ranked 8th overall.

In 1877, only six years after British Columbia joined Canada, Superintendent of Education John Jessop submitted a proposal for the creation of a university in the province. An Act respecting the University of British Columbia has been adopted by the provincial legislature in 1890, but there have been disagreements on whether to build the university on Vancouver Island or the mainland. A provincial university was officially called into existence by the 1908 Act of British Columbia University, although the situation has not yet been clarified. [22] The governance was modeled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate (faculty), responsible for academic policy, and a board of directors ( citizens) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters. The president, appointed by the board, was to establish a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership. [22] The Act constituted a twenty-one member senate with Francis Carter-Cotton of Vancouver as Chancellor. Before the University Act, there have been several attempts to create a university degrees with the help of University of Toronto and McGill. Columbian College in New Westminster, through its affiliation with Victoria College, University of Toronto, began to offer university-level credits at the turn of the century, but it was McGill that would come to dominate higher education in the 1900s . Based on a successful affiliation between secondary schools in Vancouver and Victoria, McGill University, Henry Marshall Tory [23] helped establish the University College of British Columbia McGill. From 1906 to 1915 McGill BC (as it was called) operates as a private institution that provides the first year to a graduate of McGill University or elsewhere. Henry Marshall Tory Medal was created in 1941 by Henry Marshall Tory (1864-1947), FRSC, founding president of the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, and co-founder of the Carleton University .