Over the following years, UQTR has expanded outside of the city into several towns in the Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie, Lanaudière, Quebec and Chaudière-Appalaches regions.

Groups called "commandos" patrolled the Trois-Rivières area in search of these instructors who failed to honour the pickets, enticing them to stay away from UQTR during the boycott.

[3][4] On October 2, 2024, Alexandra Martine Diengo Lumbayi, a 21-year-old Congolese UQTR international student went missing near Saint-Quentin Island.

[5][6] Search efforts began on October 4–5, involving divers, local police, and an SQ helicopter.

[9] Since 2004, the University of Montreal Faculty of Medicine has operated a satellite campus of its medical school at UQTR.

UQTR is home to the first French-speaking graduate athletic therapy program in North America.

The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the UQTR Patriotes which has teams in swimming, golf, hockey, soccer, cheerleading, badminton, athleticism and volleyball.