The University Endowment Lands (UEL) is an unincorporated area in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

It lies west of Vancouver and east of the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus lands.

Instead, it is directly administered by the provincial government in the name of the Minister of Municipal Affairs under the terms of the University Endowment Land Act.

Most of the UEL is made up of Pacific Spirit Regional Park, a mostly forested land that was originally set aside for development which never materialized.

Located on Point Grey, the UEL also boasts tall cliffs near the water, with steep drops of approximately 70 metres (230 ft) down to the beaches below.

Snowfalls are also more common than many parts of the City of Vancouver because of the area's higher altitude and the lack of an urban heat island due to less terrestrial development.

This led to the British Columbia University Loan Act, which allowed the Lieutenant-Governor to sell 3,000 acres (12 km2) of Crown land on Point Grey for residential development.

The UEL Administration is responsible for land-use planning, by-law enforcement, local streets, utilities, parks and recreation, and garbage collection.

Metro Vancouver handles emergency planning inside the UEL and shapes the development of the area through its regional growth strategy.

In 1995, a referendum was put to voters in the University Endowment Lands and in the Hampton Place neighbourhood of UBC Vancouver to combine the two communities as a new municipality.

The UEL is made up of four neighbourhood areas:[1] As Pacific Spirit Regional Park covers most of the University Endowment Lands, there are only five roads that connect the UEL to Vancouver: Northwest Marine Drive, Chancellor Boulevard, University Boulevard, 16th Avenue and Southwest Marine Drive.

An extension of the SkyTrain's Millennium Line from Arbutus Station to UBC is part of long-term plans from TransLink and the provincial government but remains unfunded.

The Village and Marketplace, located next to each other near the intersection of University Boulevard and Allison Road, are home to a food court, several restaurants, some shops, some medical clinics and some services.

The second level is home to a Japanese restaurant, a salon, a pizza parlour and a discount textbook store (which is in direct competition with UBC Bookstore, located on campus).

The basement level is entirely dedicated to a multicultural-themed food court, including Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Middle Eastern, etc.