The University of Windsor (U of W or UWindsor) is a public research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.It is Canada's southernmost university.It has approximately 12,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and 4,000 graduate students.The university dates to the founding of the Roman Catholic Assumption College in Windsor, Ontario in 1857. Assumption College, a primarily theological institution, was founded by the Society of Jesuits in 1857