Photo: Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 3.0McMaster University is 8.1 km from Waterdown
No college sits inside the town; McMaster University is 8.1 km away in Hamilton.
What stands out about college from Waterdown
Facts about the town and its distance to campus, with figures for each college.
Colleges and universities within 25 km of Waterdown
9 within 25 km: 5 universities, 4 colleges and cégeps.




What would you pay?
Tuition in Canada is set province by province, and by each institution within its province’s rules; fees for international students are higher and set apart. Statistics Canada publishes each province’s average fees every year. There is no single price to show here, so this page doesn’t make one up.
Questions about college near Waterdown
What colleges are near Waterdown?
McMaster University (8.1 km, 34,686 students); McMaster University, McMaster at Burlington (11 km, 477 students); Mohawk College (11 km, 9,949 students); Brock University, Brock University - Burlington Campus (13 km, 439 students); Redeemer University (15 km); Conestoga College, Steeles Campus (21 km, 516 students).
Colleges and universities: Quebec’s ministry lists of colleges and universities (Données Québec, CC BY 4.0); Ontario’s public universities and colleges by campus with their 2024–25 enrolment (Open Government Licence – Ontario), placed with OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors); elsewhere Statistics Canada’s Open Database of Educational Facilities (2019–22); Wikidata (CC0). Straight-line distances from the centre of Waterdown. Colleges are described, not graded. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, through each institution’s Wikidata item; author and licence on each.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).