Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University, known as SFU, is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It keeps three campuses in Greater Vancouver, at Burnaby, which is the main campus, at Surrey, and in downtown Vancouver. The 170-hectare Burnaby campus sits on Burnaby Mountain about fifteen kilometres from downtown Vancouver and was established in 1965. The university was created as part of an effort to expand higher education across Canada. SFU belongs to national and international associations including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the International Association of Universities and Universities Canada, and it partners in joint research facilities such as TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, and the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. Its programs run on a year-round, three-semester schedule, and in 2025 it became the first Canadian university to adopt university-wide open scholarship principles.