The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) ( English: University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières ), Also Known As “the university of the people”, established in 1969 and Located in Trois-Rivieres , Quebec , Canada , is a public university within the Université du Québec network. As of April 2016, the university had 14,500 students in 9 different campuses, including the main one in Trois-Rivières. About 788 of them come from overseas, from 50 countries. The university has given more than 88,000 diplomas since its founding. The Trois-Rivières campus also holds a large library with about 400,000 documents.