Editing University of Lethbridge (section)

==Academics==
The University of Lethbridge offers both [[undergraduate]] and [[graduate student|graduate]] degrees in four faculties and three schools, as described below.

The university is accredited under Alberta's Post-Secondary Learning Act<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Government of Alberta|date=February 1, 2019|title=Post-secondary learning act|url=http://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=p19p5.cfm&leg_type=Acts&isbncln=9780779807970|journal=Statutes of Alberta, 2003|pages=Chapter P-19.5|via=Alberta Queen's Printer}}</ref> and is considered a "comprehensive academic and research university" (CARU), which means offer a range of academic and professional programs that generally lead to undergraduate and graduate level credentials, and have a strong research focus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alberta.ca/types-publicly-funded-post-secondary-institutions.aspx|title=Types of publicly-funded institutions|publisher=Government of Alberta|access-date=March 28, 2019 |website=Alberta.ca}}</ref>

=== Faculties and Schools ===
[[Image:University of lethbridge SU.jpg|thumb|right|Students' Union building at University of Lethbridge]]

The University of Lethbridge offers over 150 degree programs. It has seven faculties and schools that administer its bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.

* Faculty of Arts and Science
* Faculty of Education
* Faculty of Fine Arts
* Faculty of Health Sciences
* Dhillon School of Business
* School of Graduate Studies
* School of Liberal Education

The Faculty of Arts and Science offers nine pre-professional programs in dentistry, journalism, law, medicine, nutrition and food sciences, optometry, social work, and veterinary medicine, as well as an engineering transfer program, through which students take their first year at the University of Lethbridge before completing their degrees at the [[University of Alberta]] or the [[University of Saskatchewan]].

The Agility program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship was launched at the university in 2015. This program encourages transdisciplinary innovation, including social innovation, and will soon include a large makerspace in the new science and academic building to complement existing, specialized makerspaces. The university also partners with the Tecconnect centre for entrepreneurship and innovation ([[Economic Development Lethbridge]]), Regional Innovation Network of Southern Alberta (RINSA), and other organizations to encourage the production of spinoffs and collaboration with industry.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

=== Indigenous Student Programs ===
The University of Lethbridge provides special first-year bridging programs for Indigenous students. The University of Lethbridge's Niitsitapi Teacher Education Program with [[Red Crow Community College]] was developed in partnership with specific Indigenous communities to meet specific needs within Aboriginal communities.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/cms-filesystem-action?file=pdfs%2Fconferences%2F2007%2Faboriginal-rt-spring-report.pdf|title=The University of Winnipeg<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2015-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626101902/http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/cms-filesystem-action?file=pdfs%2Fconferences%2F2007%2Faboriginal-rt-spring-report.pdf |archive-date=2008-06-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Southern Alberta Medical Program ===
In 2024, the University of Lethbridge and the [[University of Calgary]] signed a [[Memorandum of Understanding|MOU]] to establish a new Rural Medical Education Training Program in [[Lethbridge]] to help increase the number of physicians practising in Southern Alberta.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rural Medical Education Program Training Centres one step closer with Memorandum of Understanding|url=https://www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/article/rural-medical-education-program-training-centres-one-step-closer-memorandum-understanding|publisher=University of Lethbridge|access-date=6 August 2024}}</ref> The program will be located on the University of Lethbridge's main campus in the former building of the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience and once operational will enrol up to 30 students per year in the [[Cumming School of Medicine|Cumming School of Medicine's]] accelerated 3-year undergraduate medical education curriculum.