The University of Alberta (UA), founded in 1908, is a world-renowned research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a founding member of the U15 Consortium of Canadian Research Universities and the World Alliance of Energy Universities.

UA is one of Canada's leading research doctoral medical universities. It is recognized as Alberta's top university and was a founding member of a group that became the U15 Consortium of Canadian Research Universities.

The alumni of the University of Alberta include the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, three Nobel Prize winners (including Michael Houghton, the 2020 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine), 75 Rhodes Scholars (one of the highest totals of any prestigious university in the world), 141 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, and 111 of Canada’s leading research professors.