McMaster University, Canada

McMaster University (commonly referred to as McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on 121 hectares (300 acres) of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens. The university bears the name of William McMaster, a prominent Canadian Senator and banker who bequeathed C$900,000 to its founding.

McMaster University is co-educational, and has over 25,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 post-graduate students. Alumni and former students reside across Canada and in 139 countries. Notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders, Rhodes Scholars, Gates Cambridge Scholars, and two Nobel laureates. Its athletic teams are known as the Marauders, and are members of U Sports.