Editing Simon Fraser University (section)

==Academics==
There are eight faculties at Simon Fraser University:
{{div col}}
* Faculty of Applied Science
* Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
* [[Beedie School of Business]]
* [[Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University|Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology]]
* Faculty of Education
* Faculty of Environment
* Faculty of Health Sciences
* Faculty of Science
{{div col end}}

===Undergraduate===
In the Fall 2021 semester, SFU had 25,595 undergraduates, with 12,812 of them being full-time and 12,783 part-time.<ref name="enrolment"/> International students made up 21% of the undergraduate student body, of which over 85% came from Asia, the highest proportion being from China at 43%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/irp/students/documents/visa.rpt.1217.pdf|title=Fall 2021 International Student Report|access-date=2022-05-11|publisher=Simon Fraser University|archive-date=2022-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120063725/https://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/irp/students/documents/visa.rpt.1217.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> SFU's undergraduate student union is known as the [[Simon Fraser Student Society]] (SFSS).

===Graduate===
The university enrolled 4,701 graduate students in the Fall 2021 semester, with international students constituting 32% of the graduate student population.<ref name="enrolment"/> A Graduate Student Society<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfugradsociety.ca/News/News.html|title=Graduate Student Society at Simon Fraser University |access-date=2011-02-20|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521184139/http://www.sfugradsociety.ca/News/News.html|archive-date=2011-05-21}}</ref> supports and advocates for graduate students at the university.

===Continuing education===
SFU also offers non-credit programs and courses to adult students. {{as of|2016}}, SFU Continuing Studies offers more than 300 courses and 27 certificate and diploma programs, mostly delivered either online or part-time from SFU's downtown Vancouver or Surrey campus. Continuing Studies also manages a part-time degree completion program, called SFU NOW: Nights or Weekends, for working adults pursuing a bachelor's degree.<ref>{{cite web|title=Continuing Studies|url=https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/programs-and-courses/area-of-study.html|publisher=Simon Fraser University|access-date=2017-09-11|archive-date=2017-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904174317/http://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/programs-and-courses/area-of-study.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Staff unions===
[[File:Sfu-maggie-benson.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|The Maggie Benston Centre, home to many of the administrative activities at SFU]]
Teaching assistants, tutor markers, sessional instructors, language instructors, Graduate Facilitators and Research Assistants at SFU are unionized. The union, the [[Teaching Support Staff Union]] (TSSU), is independent. Faculty and lecturers are members of the Faculty Association. Staff are members of the [[Canadian Union of Public Employees]] (CUPE), the Administrative and Professional Staff Association (APSA), or Polyparty. A few positions at the university, such as some in Human Resources and senior administrative positions, fall outside the five associations or unions above.

Under the previous president, Andrew Petter, SFU's administration has incurred a number of grievances and bad faith bargaining judgments.<ref name=TyeeWages /><ref name=BadFaith /><ref name=PeakHealthPlan /> During their most recent rounds of bargaining, both the TSSU and CUPE local 3338 resorted to job action, and the BC Labour Relations Board found SFU's administration to be bargaining in bad faith with the CUPE local.<ref name=BadFaith>{{cite news|last1=Reid|first1=Marelle|title=SFU bargaining in bad faith|url=http://www.burnabynow.com/news/sfu-bargaining-in-bad-faith-1.411770|work=[[Burnaby Now]]|date=26 April 2013|access-date=2015-01-12|archive-date=2015-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504032508/http://www.burnabynow.com/news/sfu-bargaining-in-bad-faith-1.411770|url-status=live}}</ref> Conflicts since then include unpaid wages (in Fall 2013, 18% of TSSU members reported that they were not paid on the first payday; by the term's third payday, some members still had not received their wages),<ref name=TyeeWages>{{cite magazine|last1=Sandeborn|first1=Tom|date=2013-06-03|title=TSSU files complaint over unpaid wages|url=https://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/06/03/SFU-TA-Pay/|magazine=[[The Tyee]]|access-date=2015-01-12|archive-date=2015-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320221407/http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/06/03/SFU-TA-Pay/|url-status=live}}</ref> and a health plan, redundant with the provincial health plan available to all international students after their first three months in-province and costing double a prior plan's cost, in which international students are automatically enrolled.<ref name=PeakHealthPlan>{{cite web|last1=Friday|first1=Melissa|title=TSSU files grievance over international student health plan|url=http://www.the-peak.ca/2014/09/tssu-files-grievance-over-international-student-health-plan/|website=[[The Peak (newspaper)|The Peak]]|date=8 September 2014|access-date=2015-01-12|archive-date=2014-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014060419/http://www.the-peak.ca/2014/09/tssu-files-grievance-over-international-student-health-plan/|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{clear}}

===Rankings and reputation===
{{Canadian university rankings
|UniName = Simon Fraser University
|ARWU_W = 301–400
|ARWU_CAN = 13–16
|THES_W = 301–350
|THES_N = 12–15
|QS_W = 319
|QS_N = 13
|USNWR_GU = 359
|USNWR_N = 12
|MAC_comp = 1
|MAC_rep = 10
}}

Simon Fraser University has placed in various international post-secondary school rankings. In the 2022 ''[[Academic Ranking of World Universities]]'' rankings, the university ranked 301–400 in the world and 13–17 in Canada.<ref name="USUnivRankings_ARWU_W" /> The 2024 ''[[QS World University Rankings]]'' ranked the university 318th in the world and thirteenth in Canada.<ref name="QS" /> The 2023 ''[[Times Higher Education World University Rankings]]'' placed Simon Fraser 251–300 in the world, and 11–13 in Canada.<ref name="USUnivRankings_THES_W" /> In ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' 2022–23 [[U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking|global university rankings]], the university placed 317th in the world, and 12th in Canada.<ref name="USNWR Best Global Universities"/> In ''[[Maclean's]]'' 2023 rankings, the university placed first in their comprehensive university category. The university also placed ninth in ''Maclean's'' reputation category.<ref name="Macrep"/> Simon Fraser University was ranked despite having opted out from participation in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/11-universities-bail-out-of-maclean-s-survey-1.570771|title=11 universities bail out of Maclean's survey|access-date=17 August 2017|work=[[CBC News]]|date=14 April 2006|archive-date=13 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213091802/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/11-universities-bail-out-of-maclean-s-survey-1.570771|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the World’s Universities for Real Impact ([https://www.wuri.world/2022-global-top-100 WURI]) 2022 rankings, SFU ranked 18th in the world, and 1st in Canada.<ref>{{Cite press release|agency=[[Korea Newswire]]|location=[[Seoul]]|publisher=The Institute for Industrial Policy Studies |date=June 10, 2022 |title=The WURI Ranking 2022 was presented at the Third WURI Conference, Sponsored by UNITAR and other organizations |url=https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=946005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324152808/https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=946005 |archive-date= Mar 24, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Balzer |first=Jess |date=June 27, 2022 |title=SFU named top Canadian university for innovation, entrepreneurial spirit |work=[[Burnaby Now]] |url=https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/sfu-named-top-canadian-university-for-innovation-entrepreneurial-spirit-5523834 |access-date=Jan 8, 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230109060536/https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/sfu-named-top-canadian-university-for-innovation-entrepreneurial-spirit-5523834 |archive-date= Jan 9, 2023 }}</ref>  In ''QS's'' 2022 graduate employability ranking, the university ranked 301–500 in the world, and 10–17 in Canada.<ref name="QS_GEUR">{{Cite web|website=[[Quacquarelli Symonds]]|title=QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/employability-rankings|access-date=10 November 2024|date=23 September 2021|archive-date=26 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226100624/https://www.topuniversities.com/employability-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Research===
In 2020, Simon Fraser University received a sponsored research income (external sources of research funds) of [[Canadian dollar|C$]]167.256 million, the 17th highest in Canada. In the same year, the university's faculty averaged a sponsored research income of $188,600, while graduates averaged $34,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nturanking.lis.ntu.edu.tw/ranking/OverallRanking|title=World University Rankings By 2018|publisher=NTU Rankings|year=2018|access-date=3 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025093249/http://nturanking.lis.ntu.edu.tw/ranking/OverallRanking|archive-date=25 October 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Canada's Top 50 Research Universities 2021 |url=https://researchinfosource.com/top-50-research-universities/2021/list |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127100807/https://researchinfosource.com/top-50-research-universities/2021/list |archive-date=November 27, 2022 |access-date=January 4, 2023 |website=Research Infosource Inc }}</ref>

Simon Fraser's research performance has been noted by several [[bibliometrics|bibliometric]] university rankings, which uses [[citation analysis]] to evaluates the [[impact factor|impact]] a university has on academic publications. In 2019, the [[Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities]] ranked Simon Fraser 378th in the world, and 16th in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nturanking.lis.ntu.edu.tw/ranking/ByCountry/2019/CA|title=World University Rankings By 2019|publisher=NTU Rankings|year=2019|access-date=8 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708041729/http://nturanking.lis.ntu.edu.tw/ranking/ByCountry/2019/CA|archive-date=8 July 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> In [[University Ranking by Academic Performance]]'s 2018–19 rankings, the university placed 362nd in the world, and 15th in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urapcenter.org/2018/country.php?ccode=CA|title=2018-2019 Ranking by Country|publisher=Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University|year=2018|access-date=3 November 2018|archive-date=4 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104050258/http://www.urapcenter.org/2018/country.php?ccode=CA|url-status=dead}}</ref>

SFU also works with other universities and agencies to operate joint research facilities. These include [[Bamfield Marine Station]], a major centre for teaching and research in marine biology; [[TRIUMF]], a powerful cyclotron used in subatomic physics and chemistry research. SFU is also a partner institution in [[Great Northern Way Campus Ltd]] in Vancouver. In March 2006, SFU approved an affiliation agreement with a private college for international students to be housed adjacent to its Burnaby campus. This new college named [[Fraser International College]], which was in the Multi Tenant Facility (now renamed as "Discovery 2 Building") located in Discovery Parks Trust SFU site,<ref>[http://www.cknw.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428218912&rem=32389&red=80121823aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm CKNW.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927064509/http://www.cknw.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428218912&rem=32389&red=80121823aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=November 2024}} is now moved into "Discovery 1 Building" after Discovery Parks Trust returned the building to Simon Fraser University. The MODAL Research Group, based at Simon Fraser, partners with multiple Canadian universities and arts organizations to carry out multi-disciplinary research in the arts with an emphasis on the study of artistic learning and engagement.<ref>{{Cite web|website=MODAL Research Group|url=http://modalresearch.com/about/|title=About us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016035916/http://modalresearch.com/about/ |archive-date=2015-10-16|access-date=2015-09-15|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2008, SFU has the highest publication impact among Canadian comprehensive universities and the highest success rates per faculty member in competitions for federal research council funding from the [[NSERC|Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)]] and the [[SSHRC|Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfu.ca/report2008/research.html|title=Research that matters|publisher=Simon Fraser University|access-date=2011-02-20}}</ref> 

In 2017, Simon Fraser University entered into an agreement with [[Huawei]] to receive cloud computing equipment.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.richmond-news.com/special-report-huawei-technology-reaches-across-canadian-european-research-networks-1.24051731|title=Huawei technology reaches across Canadian, European research networks|last=Hainsworth|first=Jeremy|date=January 13, 2020|website=Richmond News|agency=[[Glacier Media]] (which owns Richmond News)|access-date=January 18, 2020|archive-date=January 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114205609/https://www.richmond-news.com/special-report-huawei-technology-reaches-across-canadian-european-research-networks-1.24051731|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2022, Simon Fraser University announced the creation of the cross-disciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (INN)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology {{!}} SFU Research|url=https://www.sfu.ca/research/centres-institutes/inn|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.sfu.ca|archive-date=2022-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127231808/https://www.sfu.ca/research/centres-institutes/inn|url-status=dead}}</ref> research hub to empower neuroscience-related research and collaboration across the university.