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FALL 2015 simon 47 SFU.CA get connected, stay connected Keep up to date with the latest news and events from SFU on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. themselves for some time to come. That may mean that the Burnaby campus location will become less and less important. In 2015, however, Burnaby Mountain is still the main campus. In the past academic year, 70 per cent of undergraduate enrolments were in Burnaby, six per cent in Vancouver and 13.6 per cent in Surrey. A majority of students take all of their credits in Burnaby, which offers the most courses, the great- est array of options, and the greatest number of places. But the programs at each campus are distinctive, and that has some students taking courses at more than one campus, with one per cent of students choosing to attend all three. These students travel 15 to 25 kilometres from class to class—making it a university with mammoth geography. It is the SkyTrain service to the Surrey and Vancouver campuses and the 15-minute shuttle from the SkyTrain to the top of Burnaby Mountain that makes such a schedule possible. One much-repeated objection to the placement of SFU's main campus has been its distance from the heart of Vancouver. UBC, at the end of a peninsula, has drawn the same criticism. But it has been at SFU that successive adminis- trations have tried hardest to find answers. With the creation of cam- puses at Harbour Centre and Surrey Central, they have been bring- ing the University down from the mountain, and doing so consciously and expressly. And they have been complementing these moves by building an urban environment for the Burnaby campus. Simultaneously, the Burnaby campus's place has been shifting to the centre of the Vancouver metrop- olis, as an inevitable result of urban growth. What one might have said about the isolation of the university in the past no longer applies with the same force. Nothing is static, and certainly not the physical location of SFU. â–