• Quest University Canada is Canada’s first independent, not-for-profitsecular university.
• The campus is placed and operating on ancestral lands of the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations.
• Founded in 2002 by former University of British Columbia president Dr. David Strangway. Current president is Dr. Peter Englert.
• Opened with a 73-student inaugural class on September 3, 2007. Current enrolment numbers 676 students.
• Offers only one degree, a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences.
• 52% of Quest students are from Canada, 36% from the US, and 12% from 41 other countries.
• Students focus on single “block” courses that run three hours a day, every day, for 3-1/2 weeks. Maximum class size is 20 students.
• Students chose from more than 300 courses and enjoy a student-faculty ratio of 14:1.
• While at Quest, more than 70% of students study abroad.
• More than 40 clubs on campus for student engagement.
• The university’s athletic teams—the Kermodes—play in the PACWEST Conference. Quest currently has women’s and men’s varsity basketball and varsity soccer teams, as well as men’s club rugby.
• Included in MacLean’s Canadian Universities Guidebook.
• Consistently ranks at or near the top of Canadian and US universities in all five measures of educational excellence in the yearly National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).