Royal Roads University

RRU Quick Facts

RRU stats at a glance

Budget: 2008/09: $50 million
Student population 2007/08:
Domestic programs - 2,042 full-time equivalent students, comprised of 813 undergraduates and 1,229 graduate students (as per audited enrolment report).
Off-shore programs - approx. 730 full-time equivalent students undertaking RRU MBA degrees in China, Taiwan and Bangladesh.
Staff: 400 full-time, (including 44 core faculty), plus 400 associate faculty
Research chairs: Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Communities, Dr. Ann Dale
Research Institutes: Centre for Non-Timber Resources; Centre for Health Leadership and Research
RRU is committed to expanding B.C.’s human resource capacity through quality education by:

    • Delivering niche quality programs tailored to meet
       labour market demands

    • Creating programs that combine content expertise
      and critical workplace skills such as interpersonal and intercultural acuity, technical proficiency, and
      strategic and ethical leadership

    • Leveraging the outstanding natural and cultural
      assets of Hatley Park National Historic Site to create
      a B.C. centre of excellence for tourism attraction and education.

RRU mandate

Our mission directly reflects the Royal Roads University Act of June 21, 1995.

Mission: As a distinct, special purpose university serving British Columbians, Canadians, and international learners, Royal Roads University offers undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs solely in applied and professional fields. We provide continuing education to serve the requirements and strengthen the prosperity of our local community. We are dedicated to teaching excellence and applied research activities that respond to B.C. and Canadian labour market needs.
The terms of reference of the Royal Roads University act mandates the university to build relationships within the Pacific Rim.

RRU Vision and Values

Vision: Royal Roads University is a recognized global leader in providing accessible, relevant, and high quality education and applied research within a framework of social and environmental responsibility for those who wish to advance in the workplace.

Values: Service, Sustainability, Integrity, Excellence and Employee Satisfaction. Click here for details

RRU learning models

RRU is the first university in Canada to extensively use a learning model that blends short residencies and collaborative Internet learning
Royal Roads has developed unique interactive and collaborative tools that foster teamwork even when learners are scattered across the country or around the world. The university uses technology to extend and, in some cases, improve interaction and communication among learners and with faculty members.
RRU’s distinctive blended learning model allows people to pursue learning throughout their lives while continuing to remain in the workforce and in their home communities
RRU’s undergraduate completion programs – which cover years three and four of a Bachelor’s degree – are also delivered through an intensive 12-month model on campus in Victoria.
Both models make extensive use of team-based learning to provide learners with insights into leadership and organizational dynamics.

RRU research model

RRU’s research model is action-oriented and problem-solving in nature, reflecting the evolving learner community that RRU has fostered.
The RRU research model focuses on the production of useful knowledge and tools under the unifying theme of sustainability to reflect the four core pillars of the university: environmental sustainability, empowering leadership, entrepreneurial management and conflict analysis and management.
RRU research is usually multi-disciplinary and often entails partnerships with communities, business, industry and the public sector.

RRU’s international focus

RRU is committed to give all its students the ability to learn and work effectively in multicultural environments
The university is developing mixed cohorts of international and domestic students and is forging strategic alliances with leading international educational institutions to create opportunities for student exchanges
RRU has various partnership agreements to deliver its programming internationally in countries such as China, Bangladesh, France and Uganda
RRU is the only Canadian university to offer its MBA program in Mandarin
Many of the graduates of RRU’s international MBA program in Asia are senior business people and government officials whose positive association with Royal Roads helps to pave the way for further business and other economic partnerships between Asia and Canada – B.C. in particular.

RRU future focus

The following programs are under development:

MA in Health Care Leadership and Management

The tourism and hotel management degrees are part of a larger strategic initiative at Royal Roads to strengthen the university’s mandate for public education as stewards of Hatley Park National Historic Site, the federally-designated site that is RRU’s campus. These initiatives will respond to a growing worldwide demand for tourism professionals.

RRU campus planning

RRU is now at capacity, serving 2,000 students on a campus built for 300
RRU is most cost-effective B.C. university for capital budget **
Campus improvement plan includes:

• Improvements to roads, site services, parking and garden restoration

• Deferred maintenance and restoration of heritage structures

• Construction of a new academic building, the Learning and Innovation Centre

Construction of the Robert Bateman Art and Environmental Education Centre

Introduction of a Campus Sustainability Plan

More RRU Facts

• Academic regulations
• Board of Governors
• Education Plan
• FAQs
• Financial/Enrolment Reports
• Service Plan 2006-09
• Service Plan Report 2005-06
• 2006 Royal Roads University Campus Plan (pdf)
• Sustainability at RRU
• Quality and Quality Assurance Statement
• 2006 - 10 Royal Roads University Strategic Plan
• 2006 - 2010 Academic Plan (pdf)
• Campus 2020 submission

**RRU delivers high quality programs in aging facilities that are approximately 50 per cent of the space requirement that would be set utilizing the space standards generally applied by B.C. universities. From the RRU Service Plan Report 2005.