While this is the lowest enrolment in the Université du Québec system, the number of students is steadily rising, creating demand for more courses, programs and resources.

The six-storey main building includes classrooms, teaching and research laboratories, a library, an educational resource centre, office and administrative space, student lounges and ancillary services such as a cafeteria and bookstore.

On completion of the 400-day construction project, supervised by Groupe AMT, the building was delivered to the university du Québec en Outaouais at a pre-tax cost of $21,750,000.

UQO's project was modelled on the partnership used by the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) for its Lévis campus, which was also built by Groupe commercial AMT under the direction of Jacques Tanguay.

The Québec Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports will provide an annual subsidy of $2.2 million over 25 years to cover the lease costs.

There is also an emerging natural sciences component, particularly in silviculture and deciduous forest management, through a close partnership with the Institut québécois d'aménagement de la forêt feuillue.

The 4,500 m2 Centre, built at a cost of $15.2 million, houses some 150 language industry specialists who pool their expertise in technology and linguistics on specific projects.

The centre supports the Canadian language industry, and makes UQO the ideal destination for anyone interested in studying, specializing or conducting research in this field.

In January 2008, with a Québec government subsidy of $14 million, UQO began expanding wings A and C of its Alexandre-Taché pavilion, adding 7,600 m2 over five storeys.

The cyberpsychology laboratory was launched by Stéphane Bouchard in 1996 with an in-house research grant from the Université du Québec à Hull (as UQO was formerly known).

By 2002, the laboratory had expanded to the point that it received subsidies from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), which gave added impetus to the work in progress, including projects involving the use of videoconferencing in the treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia, and the use of virtual reality in the treatment of anxiety disorders.