Royal Roads University

Royal Roads University

Motto	HUĆIST TŦE S,HELI ŁTE.
Motto in English	"Living Our Learning"
Type	Public university
Established	1995
Endowment	$40 million
Chancellor	Nelson Chan
President	Philip Steenkamp
Academic staff	52 full-time, plus 450 associate faculty
Students	4,170
Undergraduates	765
Postgraduates	3,405
Location	Colwood , British Columbia , Canada 48°26′04″N 123°28′22″W / 48.43444°N 123.47278°W / 48.43444; -123.47278
Campus	Urban
Colours	White   & blue
Affiliations	AUCC, IAU, CVU
Website	www.royalroads.ca

Royal Roads University (also referred to as RRU or Royal Roads) is a public university with its main campus in Colwood, British Columbia, Canada. The university is located at Hatley Park National Historic Site on Vancouver Island and is the successor to the Royal Roads Military College (RRMC), which was originally a training base for naval officers and later Canadian Air Force and Army personnel. After the end of the Cold War, the college was decommissioned, however, it was reinstituted following negotiations between the Department of National Defence and the Government of British Columbia by which the Royal Roads University Act was passed, leading to the establishment of Royal Roads University in June 1995.^[1][2]

The campus covers approximately 260 hectares of leased property on the grounds of Hatley Castle, which was designed by architect Samuel Maclure in the early twentieth century for British Columbia politician and coal magnate James Dunsmuir and his family. Royal Roads is a small-scale university offering over 70 programs ranging from certificates and diplomas to undergraduate and graduate degrees. RRU currently has an enrolment of around 4,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as a network of over 34,000 alumni from both the current university and the former military college.