Laval University

Laval University, at Quebec, Que., Canada; Roman Catholic, coeducational, French language; chartered 1852, an outgrowth of a seminary established 1663 by Bishop Laval. In 1876 a branch was established in Montreal, which in 1919 became independent as the Univ. of Montreal. Laval has faculties of administration, agriculture, arts, education, forestry, law, letters, medicine, philosophy, sciences and engineering, social sciences, and theology. It has schools of architecture, dentistry, visual arts, music, nursing, pharmacy, psychology, and social work. There are research institutes in ecology and northern studies.

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Laval University

French-language university in Quebec city, Quebec, Canada. Its predecessor institution, the Seminary of Quebec (founded 1663), is considered Canada's first institution of higher learning. The seminary was granted a university charter in 1852 and reorganized in 1970. Today the university has undergraduate and graduate degree programs in numerous fields.