University of Sudbury

The University of Sudbury (Université de Sudbury, uSudbury) is a French-language university in Sudbury, Ontario, founded in 1913. Its stated mission is to offer high-quality education in French in a supportive learning environment for students of northeastern Ontario. Its values are excellence, solidarity, commitment and action. The university is led by a rector and vice-chancellor, Serge Miville, with a governance council chaired by Kim Morris and Donald Obonsawin as chancellor.

The campus is at 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury. After a relaunch, the university gained accreditation from Ontario's Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board (PEQAB, in French CEQEP) in 2022 to offer publicly funded university programming, partnered with the University of Ottawa in 2023-2024, received Ontario government funding in 2025 and welcomed its first student cohort in more than sixty years in September 2025. It was designated under Ontario's French Language Services Act in January 2020.

Undergraduate programs fall into four areas: Business and Administration (Bachelor of Commerce), Health Sciences (B.Sc.San. and B.Sc.), Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences (B.A. majors in History and French Letters, and an interdisciplinary B.A.). Each 120-credit bachelor's degree includes a common core and a 24-credit minor in leadership, with courses in university preparation, academic writing, communication, critical thinking, leadership, teamwork and professional ethics. Business options are marketing, human resources management and project management; Health Sciences options include public health and population health and integrated health biosciences. Minors and 30-credit certificates (applied ethics, management) are also offered. In January 2026 the university announced a rental agreement with Collège Boréal for science laboratory space and equipment, allowing science courses and labs at the university for the first time since 1960.

Every student has a dedicated coach from the final year of secondary school through the four years of a degree, for academic, personal and financial-aid questions. A para-academic leadership program places students in diverse teams of eight that meet twice weekly for 90 minutes with a coach, for 12 weeks per semester across the undergraduate degree, with digital badges leading to a certificate from the university's Academy of Leadership and Governance. Student services include mental health and well-being support and harassment and sexual violence prevention.

The University of Sudbury Residence has space for 176 students in single and double rooms, with no meal plan required, and is open to students of any Sudbury post-secondary institution. Residence staff work in a bilingual environment. The library holds about 29,000 titles, which are being integrated into the catalogue of the Université de Hearst under a 2026 partnership.