The University of Waterloo was founded in 1959. At the beginning of its establishment, it focused on the emerging computer industry, and rarely set up a mathematics college to promote the development of computer specialty. Waterloo's most commendable achievement is that it founded the cooperative.

Program gives students majoring in computer science the opportunity to gain working experience in famous companies such as IBM, Nortel and Bell while studying. Now it has been followed by universities in the United States and Canada.

As a leader in the design and development of computer software in Canada, computer scientists in our school have developed a series of internationally renowned softwares, such as WATFOR, WATFIV, WATBOL, SPARSPARK and MAPLE. Teachers from Computer College and Computer Department set up a center, and used computers to help build a database of 20 volumes of 570 million words of Oxford English Dictionary. All Shakespeare's works were stored in the computer.

The University of Waterloo has won a reputation unmatched by other universities in the computer industry. In the past ten years, there has been a great demand for undergraduate computer graduates in this school, and major companies are scrambling to hire them. Among the eight American universities and five Canadian universities that Microsoft gives priority to graduates, the University of Waterloo ranks first. Over the years, more graduates from the University of Waterloo have worked in Microsoft than any other North American university.

Employment direction:

Computers have a wide range of employment and high salary, especially in the fields of computer system structure design, programming, training and management, as well as operational experts in the economic field, such as retail, banking, manufacturing, agriculture, service industry, education, government, computer manufacturing, software development and other traditional fields. The software is embedded in the control systems of automobiles, airplanes and tractors, and even installed in heart rate regulators. Software not only connects people with information through the Internet, but also promotes the development of the entertainment industry. Such as computer games, music and animation. It makes scientific research in some fields possible, such as developing new drugs to improve the biological information of medical level; There is also that telemedicine can reach rural communities; It also realizes medical diagnosis in the virtual world; It also ensures the safety of private medical records.