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UBC has today announced the extension of its Blue & Gold Campaign for Students, doubling the target to $200-million by 2022.
Sep 3, 2019
As every university graduate knows, earning a degree is expensive—and stressful. Recent government figures show the average undergraduate student in British Columbia who takes out a loan for their degree will complete their studies with an estimated $28,000 in combined provincial and federal student loan debt.
On Tuesday, September 3, UBC will be welcoming 7,000 new students to the university. UBC will also be celebrating the fact it has hit its Blue & Gold Campaign for Students $100-million goal almost a year early.
A few years before NASA astronaut Jessica Meir began learning to fly a spacecraft for her upcoming trip to the International Space Station, she was in flight-training of a different kind: teaching bar-headed geese how to fly in a wind tunnel at the University of British Columbia.
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