Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 3.0Waterloo is home to the University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo (37,211 students) and Wilfrid Laurier University (16,464 students) are inside Waterloo; the nearest university campus outside it is Wilfrid Laurier University, Wilfrid Laurier University - Kitchener Campus, 4.3 km away in Kitchener.
What stands out about college in Waterloo
Facts about the town and its distance to campus, with figures for each college.
Colleges and universities within 25 km of Waterloo
8 within 25 km: 4 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 Waterloo
What colleges are in Waterloo?
University of Waterloo (37,211 students); Wilfrid Laurier University (16,464 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 Waterloo. 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).