Established in 1908, the University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university and British Columbia’s oldest university. The university is one of the most respectable universities in Canada and so it is constantly ranked among the top universities in Canada and worldwide. UBC hosts the world’s largest cyclotron in its TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. As of 2017, eight Nobel laureates, 71 Rhodes scholars, 65 Olympians, ten fellows in both American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society, and 208 fellows to the Royal Society of Canada have been affiliated with UBC. Three Canadian prime ministers, including Canada’s first female prime minister Kim Campbell and current prime minister Justin Trudeau have been educated at UBC.