The Université du Québec en Outaouais is the network's youngest university. It currently has about 6,000 students, most of whom are studying in Gatineau and in Saint‑Jérôme. The Institut des sciences de la forêt tempérée, an institute for temperate forest science, in Ripon, is more for students earning a master's degree or a Ph.D. A lot of forest research is done there.
There are about 500 international students, but our students come from all over. For example, people from Montreal come study at the Saint‑Jérôme campus. Diversity is very important.