Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), established in 1969 is a campus of the Université du Québec, located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. The university has 10,000 students in 8 different campus, including the main one in Trois-Rivieres. About 900 of them comes overseas from 37 countries. It had given a total of 54,000 diplomas since its beginning. The Trois-Rivieres campus also holds a large library with about 400,000 documents.

History
The UQTR was created in 1969 with the merger of the "Centre d'Études universitaires de Trois-Rivières" and L'école normale d'État Maurice Duplessis". The first major campus, Ringuet, was open in 1973 and located near the vicinity of Des Forges and Des Récollets Boulevards near downtown Trois-Rivières. Over the following years, the UQTR would expanded outside of the city in several towns in the Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Lanaudière, Québec and Chaudière-Appalaches regions

Les Patriotes de l'UQTR
The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the UQTR Patriotes which has teams in swimming, golf, hockey, soccer and volleyball.

Chiropractic program
It is home to the first public and the first university-based chiropractic school in North America. In that program there is strict limit of admissions per year which is 45. Students are also chosen based on performances at cegep.

2005 Student Strike
During the 2005 student strike, students have narrowly voted in early March for a three-day strike which included the day that occurred the March 16 protest in Montreal in which several hundreds of UQTR students participated. Two days later, they narrowly voted for a return to class. However, due to complaints made by some student groups, the UQTR returned to strike action about a week later. During the first general strike, some instructors reported to work to teach classes as scheduled; groups called "commandos" patrolled the Trois-Rivieres area in search of instructors who failed to honor the pickets, enticing them to stay away from UQTR during the strike. 

Medical School
Since 2004, the University of Montreal Faculty of Medicine operates a satellite campus of its medical school in the UQTR. The preclinical years are simulcast with the respective classes in Montreal, and the two clinical years are completed in the Centre hospitalier régional de Trois-Rivières (CHRTR). The degree is granted by the University of Montreal.

In 2007, the construction of a new medical education pavilion began, slated for completion in 2010.

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Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières