The University of Regina is a degree-granting institution located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Originally a private denominational junior college of the Methodist Church of Canada and founded in 1911, it began an association with the University of Saskatchewan as a junior college in 1925, was disaffiliated by the Church and fully ceded to the University in 1934; in 1961 it attained degree-granting status as the Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan and has been an autonomous university since 1974. It had an enrollment of over 12,500 full and part-time students as of the 2002-03 academic year and was rated sixth in the 2005 Maclean's magazine Canadian National Comprehensive Universities Rankings.