Lakehead University one of Canada’s best kept secrets

January 23, 2017 – Thunder Bay, ON 

The secret is out about Lakehead University. 

Lakehead was recently included among an exclusive group of Canadian universities on a Huffington Post list of under-the-radar institutions that are considered our country’s best kept secrets. 

“The Huffington Post article stated what thousands of alumni already know – that Lakehead is exceptional and unconventional,” said Lakehead President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Brian Stevenson. 

Referred to as “the quintessentially Canadian university experience,” Lakehead’s campuses in Thunder Bay and Orillia offer elements that students won’t find in other schools – such as beauty, serenity, and small class sizes. 

“Lakehead is a fully comprehensive and research-intensive university, meaning we have everything that larger universities have, but without the large classes. As the article says, at Lakehead our students are truly more than just a number,” Dr. Stevenson said. 

Lakehead’s inclusion in the Huffington Post list of the country’s best kept secrets follows other, less-than-secret, accolades, such as being ranked Canada’s number one research university in its category for the second year in a row by Re$earch Infosource, and that more than 94% of our undergraduate students find employment within two years of graduation—higher than the provincial average. 

Please click here to read the Huffington Post article. 

Please click here for more about the Re$earch Infosource rankings.

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Media: For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media Relations Officer, at (807) 343-8177, or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.

Lakehead University has about 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. In 2016, for the second consecutive year, Re$earch Infosource ranked Lakehead first among Canada’s undergraduate universities. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.