The UBC Okanagan Master Plan was initiated to create a new UBC campus in the interior of British Columbia. This is the first significant expansion of UBC's presence outside of Vancouver and is intended to respond to a growing interest in UBC from students outside of the Lower Mainland. The campus is located on approximately 100 hectares in the beautiful Canadian setting of a typical Okanagan landscape mix of grassland and ponderosa pine. Before becoming a part of UBC, the site was partially occupied by a community college that left behind a small grouping of buildings along with a network of roads and services that were all rationalized within the new UBCO Plan. The Master Plan was informed by UBCO's Academic Plan, which intends to reinvent the way people learn, emphasizing learning within an environment that fosters social and academic mixing, and within a place that offers a wide variety of opportunities for communication, recreation and, for many, an exciting life on campus.
