Laurentian University (French: Université Laurentienne) is a mid-sized bilingual university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, incorporated on March 28, 1960. While primarily focusing on undergraduate programming, Laurentian also houses the east campus of Canada’s newest medical school—the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, which opened in 2005. Its school of Graduate Studies offers a number of graduate-level degrees. Laurentian is the largest bilingual provider of distance education in Canada.