The Office of Budget and Planning was established initially as the Office of Budget, Planning, and Systems Management, in October 1984; the name was shortened to its current form in 1990. It succeeded Budget, Analysis, and Planning, which had superseded Institutional Analysis and Planning, which in turn had followed the Office of Academic Planning, dating back to 1961. The office and its predecessors were formerly responsible for helping design new campus buildings and planning the allocation of office, classroom, and storage space; however, that function was transferred to Physical Planning and Development (now Campus Planning and Development) in 1988. From 1976 to 1978, it provided information to the University's anti-inflation board to monitor or control salary levels. Some of its staff have served on the British Columbia Post-Secondary Education Enrollment Forecasting Committee (BCFC), an inter-institutional body based at UBC. The office's current functions are to formulate, maintain, and monitor the General Purpose Operating Budget and the University Development Fund. It provides information to the President's Office, the Board of Governors, the Senate, and other University bodies and individuals. The Office publishes the annual Budget and Planning Narrative, the University Fact Book, and other reports. The President's Office provides information to the provincial government and other external agencies and individuals.

The Office of Extra-Sessional Studies (OESS) was created in 1975 to coordinate the administration of all extra-sessional credit courses and programs (except Independent Studies). The Office had responsibility for part-time degree programs offered during the late afternoon, evening, weekend, Spring Session and Summer Session. In 1977 it was given the additional responsibility of coordinating and organizing Directed Study Abroad credit courses. The academic staff of OESS consisted of a Director and an Associate Director. The Co-ordinating Committee of Extra-Sessional Studies was established in 1976 to assist the Director. The role of the Committee is to advise on long-range development plans, budget implications, guidelines regarding maximum units taken during the academic year, the financial implications of regular day student enrollment in evening classes, and other related academic matters. In 1991 Extra-Sessional Studies, along with the Centre for Continuing Education and Guided Independent Study (UBC Access), was brought under the authority of an Associate Vice-President, Continuing Studies. In 1993 all three units were merged into one unit called Continuing Studies.

The Office of Institutional Analysis and Planning (IAP) was established at the University of British Columbia in 1976 to assume duties previously performed by the Office of Academic Planning, which began operations in 1961. Like its predecessor, IAP was responsible for various functions, including preparing statistical material, forecasting enrollments, building needs and staffing requirements. The functions of IAP were transferred to Budget, Planning and Systems Management in 1984.

The Office of Physical Plant, responsible for engineering, maintenance, and planning on the University campus, was established in 1967. Previously, since 1943 these had been the responsibility of a Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds within the Bursar's Office and later the Dean of Administrative and Financial Services. Physical Plant was organized in four divisions, reflecting its responsibilities, in 1969: Operations and Maintenance, Design and Planning, New Construction, and Administrative Services. In the 1980s it was re-organized, with two departments, Plant Operations (1989-1997) and Plant (later Physical) Design and Construction, under the Director of Physical Plant. The two departments were further separated in 1988. Physical Design and Construction merged with Facilities Planning and this operation was renamed Campus and Community Planning in 2001. Plant Operations was eventually absorbed into Land and Building Services.

The UBC Office of Research Services was established in 1977 as Research Administration. Before its establishment, the President's Office oversaw the administration of the university's research activities. In 1983 Research Administration changed its name to Research Services. In 1986 its name changed to Research Services and Industry Liaison. In 1992 it changed its name back to Research Services. Throughout this time, Richard D. Spratley managed its activities. In 1983, when Research Administration changed its name, Spratley's position as Research Administrator was re-named, Director.
The Office administers grants and grant programs for the University. Several separate committees are responsible for administering grant programs and overseeing different types of research. The Human Ethics Committee oversees ethical review procedures for research involving humans. The Animal Care Committee approves research involving animals while ensuring that animal care guidelines are met. The Biosafety Committee reviews and supports research involving biohazardous materials and sets safety standards.

Administrative History
Between 1913 and 1947 administration of the University was primarily conducted by the President, who delegated responsibility among the various Deans. As the University grew in size and complexity, the Board of Governors passed a motion in 1947 to identify a position called "Assistant to the President." While the Board did not clearly state the specific duties and responsibilities, the position did receive signing authority in 1954. At that point, the title was changed to "Dean and Deputy to the President," This position was occupied by Geoffrey C. Andrew (1947-1962). In 1963 on the recommendation of the Woods, Gordon Report (1963), the President and the Board of Governors passed a motion stating that a single person should be recognized as Vice-President to "assist the President in all areas" (BOG minutes, 241, 1963), a position held by William C. Gibson (1963-1969). As a result, either the "Dean and Deputy to the President" position was modified, or an additional VP position was created – Neil G. Perry held the position of VP from 1963 to 1966.
While the University had had positions analogous to Vice President – the position of Bursar and Treasurer, as well as Dean of Inter-Faculty Affairs, for example – the President argued that a position was necessary that was senior to the deans. The Board of Governors agreed, and in 1967 the Board sought to transform the positions held by the Bursar and the Dean of Inter-Faculty affairs into "Deputy President" positions. Accordingly, the Board passed a motion to create three Deputy President posts. However, in 1969 only two positions were created, Deputy President (held by William Armstrong until 1974) and Deputy President and Bursar (held by William White until 1984, during his tenure, the position became "VP and Bursar").
Changes in the British Columbia Universities Act in 1975 resulted in the two Deputy Presidents being replaced by four positions. The offices were set out as follows: Vice President of University Development (held by Michael Shaw until 1983), responsible for animal care, botanical gardens, computing centre, extra-sessional studies, institutional analysis and research; Vice President of Faculty and Student Affairs (held by Erich Vogt until 1981), responsible for athletics, university bookstore, ceremonies, foods services registrar's office, student housing, student awards, and student services; the title of Deputy President and Bursar was changed to Vice President and Bursar without altering the functions of the office (continued to be held by William White until 1984); and Vice President of Administrative Services (held by Charles Connaghan until 1980), responsible for employee relations, physical plant, purchasing, traffic and universities resource council.
In 1980, Vice President of Administrative Services Connaghan resigned. In 1981 the position was changed to VP of University Services, with James Kennedy at the helm until 1984. In 1984 the responsibilities of the office were combined with that of the new Vice-President position of Finance. As a result, the position has been known as Finance, Finance and Administration, Financial Services, Resources and Operations, and is currently Finance & Operations. At various times, the position has had ultimate responsibility for such services as supply management, campus security, the UBC Bookstore, the Development Office, food services, land and building services, human resources, budgeting, treasury, and other business and financial operations. During the search for the first VP, Allen Baxter served as acting VP for a few months in 1984. The first VP was A.B. Gellatly, who served from 1984 until 1995. He was replaced by Terry Sumner in 1995, who left in 2008. Pierre Ouillet became the new VP in 2009. Andrew Simpson replaced Ouillet in 2014. Peter Smailes replaced Simpson in 2018.
The resignation of the Vice President of Faculty and Student Affairs (Vogt) in 1981 resulted in the functions of this office being transferred to the Vice President of University Development (Shaw), whose title was then changed to Vice President Academic and Provost. This office included the associate positions of both Academic and Research, which, by 1986, would become bona fide Vice President positions. In 1983, Shaw left the position and was replaced by Robert H. T. Smith. In 1985, Smith was replaced by Daniel Birch. Birch was replaced by Barry McBride in 1997. Lorne Whitehead replaced McBride in 2004. Whitehead left in 2006 and was replaced by David Farrar in 2007, with George Mackie acting VP from 2006 to 2007. Farrar left in 2015 and was replaced by Andrew Szeri in 2017, with Angela Redish as acting VP from 2015 to 2017.
From 1984 to 1985, a Vice Presidency was created that did not last long. It was called Vice-President of Development and Community Relations. David McMillan held it.
In 1986, the Vice Presidency of Student and Academic Services was created. The position is now known as Vice-President Students. The first president was K. D. Srivastava until 1994. Maria Klawe replaced him in 1995. Mary Risebrough replacedher in 1997. Risebrough was replaced by Brian Sullivan in 1999. After Sullivan left in 2011, Louise Nasmith was acting VP until Louise Cowin was selected to fill the position the same year. Cowin left in 2018, and Andrew Parr worked as VP until Ainsley Carry was chosen to fill the position in 2019.
In 1986, the Vice President of Research was created. This position has been known as Research and International and (as of 2017) Research and Innovation. The first VP was Peter Larkin. Robert replaced him. C. Miller, Jr. in 1990. In 1995, Miller was replaced by Bernard Bressler, who left in 1999). David H. Dolphin was acting VP from 1999 to 2000 and again in 2005 when Indira Samaresekera, who attained the position in 2000, left. After that, John Hepburn took the helm from 2005 to 2016. After that, Helen Burt was acting VP until Gail Murphy became VP in 2017.
In 1992 the Board of Governors recommended that the office of the Vice Presidency expand from four positions to five. The recommendation was passed, and the Vice President of External Affairs was added. The functions of this office include university relations and development. Since then, it has been known as VP External and Legal Affairs; VP External, Legal and Community Engagement; VP, Communications and Community Partnership; and is currently VP, External Relations. Peter W. Ufford held this position until 1998); Charles Slonecker was acting VP until Dennis Pavlich was hired in 2001. Pavlich left in 2007, and Stephen Owen took over until 2011. Pascal Spothelfer held the position until 2014. Philip Steenkamp then held the position from 2015 to 2018. The search for the new head of this position is still ongoing (Feb. 2019). In the meantime, Michael White and Adriaan de Jager are co-acting VPs.
In 2008 the development (fundraising) and alumni engagement functions were aligned under the new VP position of Development and Alumni Engagement. Barbara Miles was the first holder of the office and remained so until 2018); Jeff Todd acted as VP for a few months until Heather McCaw took over as VP in 2018.
In 2012, the responsibility of human resources was removed from the VP of Finance and was subsequently placed under the responsibility of a new position known as Vice President Human Resources. This position was initially by Lisa Castle until 2017. Linda McKnight was acting VP for a few months until Barbara Meens Thistle became the new VP in 2017.

The Office of Budget and Planning was established in 1984. Its function and its predecessors were responsible for designing new campus buildings and planning the allocation of office, classroom, and storage space; however, that function was transferred to Physical Planning and Development in 1988. Physical Planning and Development was later renamed Campus Planning and Development.

C.E. Rooney led plant Operations (1989-1997). This unit was formerly named Building and Grounds (1943-1967) and later Physical Plant (1967-1989). In 1998 Plant Operations became part of Land and Building Services under its Director Paul Becker.

The Players' Club was founded at the University of British Columbia in 1915 by Frederic Wood, who served as honourary president and director of all plays staged from 1916 to 1931. The objective of the organization was to provide training in the theatre arts for UBC students. Each spring and fall, the club performed one-act plays throughout the province. Such tours contributed significantly to the cultural life of B.C.. In addition, they helped integrate the activities of the university with the outlying areas of the province. The Players' Club disbanded in 1966 following the institution of the Department of Theatre at UBC. However, it was revived in the 1990s.

The Players' Club Alumni of The University of British Columbia was established in 1933 to provide an organization of past and future members of the Players' Club to help form a permanent theatre. With encouragement from Frederic Wood, the Players' Club Alumni (PCA) entered the 1933 Dominion Drama Festival with a one-act play, Fog, written and directed by Sydney Risk. Full-length productions began the following year with Jules Romain's comedy, Dr. Knock, directed by Bea Wood. Ensuing productions included; By Candlelight, Fresh Fields, Once in a Lifetime, Boy Meets Girl, The Lady of Lyons, Lovers Leap, The Adding Machine and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Unfortunately, the productions of Distant Point and Claudia following a brief war-time hiatus exhausted the club's resources. The PCA returned in 1949 with three one-act comedies in the UBC Auditorium. In 1955, the club's production of The Crucible for the Dominion Drama Festival in Regina won the Calvert trophy for the best play. The PCA continued with several productions, all under the direction of John Brockington, which included: The Living Room, I am a Camera, The Cherry Orchard, Waiting for Godot and The Potting Shed. In 1958, the club staged its last production, At Our Wit's End. Although it continued to exist for several more years, at its general meeting in July 1965, the PCA wound up its activities by voting to donate the residue of club funds to the Dorothy Somerset Scholarship Fund.

The President's Advisory Committee on Childcare was established for the academic year 1982-83 under the chair of N.J. Divinsky. Its purpose is to advise the President about children's care at UBC.

The mandate of the President's Committee on Research was to make recommendations regarding the disposition of funds for research. The Committee received proposals from full-time faculty members who sought funding for various projects. The Committee kept records of its recommendation and received progress reports on the work accomplished with the assistance of these grants.

The Office of President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia is a position that provides oversight and direction for the University's operation following the strategic framework and recommendations of the Board of Governors and the Senates (Vancouver and Okanagan). The President's duties, powers, responsibilities, and offices are specified under the British Columbia University Act. The commission of the President (63) includes the President as a member of the Board of Governors and chair of the Senates. They are also members of the Senate's standing (permanent) committees, except for the standing committee on appeals. They are a member of each faculty, and in the absence of the chancellor, they must confer degrees in their place. Under the Act (59), the President can recommend appointments and promotions. They may also remove teaching and administrative staff, summon faculty meetings, authorize lectures and instruction in any faculty, and establish any committees the President may consider necessary. The President's duties (62) include preparing and publishing annual reports on the University's progress, highlighting any essential recommendations to the Board of Governors and the Senate and reporting on any matter referred to the President by the Board of Governors or the Senate. In addition, the President must submit an annual budget and present the submissions to the Minister of Education.
Frank F. Wesbrook was recruited as the University's first President in 1913. He continued in this position until he died in 1919. He was succeeded, in turn, by Leonard S. Klinck (1919-1944), Norman A.M. MacKenzie (1944-1962), John B. MacDonald (1962-1967), Walter Gage (1967-1968), Kenneth Hare (1968-1969), Walter Gage (1969-1975), Douglas Kenny (1975-1983), George Pedersen (1983-1985), Robert Smith (1985) and David Strangway (1985-1997), Martha Piper (1997-2006 ), Stephen J. Toope (2006-2014), Arvind Gupta (2014-2015), Martha Piper (once more) (2015-2016), Santa J. Ono (2016-2022), Interim President Deborah Buszard from Oct. 2022-Nov. 2023 and Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon (Nov. 2023-present). The duties and functions of the President's Office have expanded with the growth of the University. Until 1968, the UBC Presidents carried out their responsibilities by assisting various faculty members. In 1968, President Hare appointed William Armstrong, Walter Gage, and William White as acting Deputy Presidents. He delegated the President's Office multiple responsibilities. When Gage became President following Hare's resignation in 1969, White and Armstrong became Deputy Presidents. The Deputy President's positions continued until 1975 when they were replaced with four vice presidents under President Kenny. In 1987, the vice-presidents' duties were divided into Administration and Finance, Academic, Student and Academic Services, and Research.

The UBC Press was established in March 1971 as the incorporated successor to the Publications Centre, which had been the publishing department of the University since 1961. With the change of name, the Press expanded its publishing program. In addition, it broadened its services to the regional, Canadian, and international scholarly communities, frequently providing book production and distribution services to many national and international university presses, cultural institutions, government agencies, and international publishing houses.
The Press has editorial, promotion, and distribution facilities for its books. At the same time, commercial firms, although controlled by the Press, do the design and printing. All books published by the UBC Press are subjected to peer review and must be approved by a committee of faculty members appointed by the University President.
The Press concentrates a significant portion of its book publishing activities in four general areas of Asia and the Pacific, International Law, and Canadian subjects, emphasizing British Columbia. A wide range of academic disciplines in these areas, from the humanities through the sciences, is included. The Press also publishes works of special significance outside these areas when warranted. In addition to books and monographs, several journals and a yearbook are also published in association with the Press. Most notable are the journals Canadian Literature, B.C. Studies, and Pacific Affairs, as together they formed the primary impetus for developing a Publications Centre, turned Press, within the University of British Columbia. These journals retain their "associative" relationship with the UBC Press. More or less concurrently, the Canadian Yearbook of International Law commenced publication under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association, also in association with the UBC Press. Aside from these editorial considerations, the UBC Press has also carried on an active book-publishing program, encouraging faculty members who wish advice on the publishing process to consult the Press.
In the early 1960s, the Executive Director of the UBC Press reported to the Deputy President of the University. The Executive Director also reported to a Faculty Board of 23 members to whom the Director was to submit an Annual Report. While the Board authorized all major policy decisions of the Press, it also facilitated the establishment of a supportive sub-committee whose mandate was to handle routine publishing decisions and any other, less significant, Press affairs. In1998, the UBC Press was granted the official designation of a University Department. As such, both the Press and its Executive Director report directly to the Vice-President, Research. A Publications Committee, as the descendent of the founding "supportive sub-committee," is presently the collective entity responsible for all publishing decisions.
James Banham, Information Officer at the University, acting Executive Director of the Centre during the 1960s, initially oversaw the Publications Centre / UBC Press administration. In 1969, Anthony N. Blicq was appointed Executive Director of the UBC Press. Blicq acted in this capacity until 1983 when Basil Stuart Stubbs was directed to fill the resulting vacancy in an interim capacity. In 1984, James J. Anderson, who served in this executive capacity until 1990, relieved Stubbs. For the following year, Jean Wilson was appointed to the Acting Director until 1991, when R. Peter Milroy received the full executive appointment.

The Press has editorial, promotion and distribution facilities for the books it publishes. At the same time, commercial firms, although controlled by the Press, do the design and printing. All books published by the UBC Press are subjected to peer review and must be approved by a committee of faculty members appointed by the University President.
The Press continues to concentrate a significant portion of its book publishing activities in four general areas of Asia and the Pacific, International Law, and Canadian subjects, emphasizing British Columbia. A wide range of academic disciplines in these areas, from the humanities through the sciences, is included. The Press also publishes works of special significance outside these areas when warranted. In addition to books and monographs, several journals and a yearbook are also published in association with the Press. Most notable are the journals Canadian Literature, B.C. Studies, and Pacific Affairs, as together they formed the primary impetus for developing a Publications Centre, turned Press, within the University of British Columbia. These journals continue to retain their "associative" relationship with the UBC Press. More or less concurrently, the Canadian Yearbook of International Law commenced publication under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association, also in association with the UBC Press. Aside from these editorial considerations, the UBC Press has also carried on an active book-publishing program, encouraging faculty members who wish advice on the publishing process to consult the Press.
In the early 1960s, the Executive Director of the UBC Press reported to the Deputy President of the University. The Executive Director also reported to a Faculty Board of 23 members to whom the Director was to submit an Annual Report. While the Board authorized all major policy decisions of the Press, it also facilitated the establishment of a supportive sub-committee whose mandate was to handle routine publishing decisions and any other, less significant, Press affairs. In1998, the UBC Press was granted the official designation of a University Department. As such, both the Press and its Executive Director report directly to the Vice-President, Research. A Publications Committee, as the descendent of the founding "supportive sub-committee," is presently the collective entity responsible for all publishing decisions.
Mr. James Banham, Information Officer at the University, who was Acting Executive Director of the Centre during the 1960s, initially oversaw the Publications Centre / UBC Press administration. In 1969, Mr. Anthony N. Blicq was appointed Executive Director of the UBC Press. Mr. Blicq acted in this capacity until 1983 when Basil Stuart Stubbs was directed to fill the resulting vacancy in an interim capacity. In 1984, James J. Anderson, who served in this executive capacity until 1990, relieved Mr. Stuart Stubbs. For the following year, Jean Wilson was appointed to the Acting Director until 1991, when R. Peter Milroy received the full executive appointment.

The role is broad and complex, with responsibilities which include;

1. Providing academic leadership to the Faculties on the UBC Vancouver campus.
2. Recruiting and retaining diverse, world-class faculty members and the very best diverse undergraduate and graduate students.
3. Maintaining the highest standards of excellence in delivering undergraduate, graduate and professional education.
4. Leading institutional planning and ensuring the alignment of operating, capital, strategic and other operational resources to academic priorities.
5. Ensuring equity, diversity and inclusive excellence in implementing UBC’s strategic plans, including Shaping UBC’s Next Century; the Indigenous Strategic Plan; Inclusion Action Plan;
   and Climate and Sustainability.
6. Providing the systems, physical and organizational infrastructure necessary to support excellence in research and student learning.

The University of British Columbia's Public Affairs Office emerged in 1995 as part of the External Affairs Division. Like its direct predecessors, the Information Office (1965-1985) and Community Relations (1985-1994), the Public Affairs Office's primary function is to communicate UBC's mission, key messages and values to both its internal community of faculty, staff and students and to the broader external community. Public Affairs produces twenty-one issues of UBC Reports each year. This publication includes major articles on people, events and activities in the university community. In addition to using information for articles in UBC Reports, Public Affairs is also responsible for disseminating information to a broad base of print and electronic media sources for publication and presentation to the public. In 2018 the Public Affairs Office changed its name to Media Relations.

The UBC Publications Centre has been the publishing department of the University since 1961. Three journals, Canadian Literature, B.C. Studies, and Pacific Affairs, were the motivation behind founding a Publications Centre. James Banham, Information Officer at the University, who was Acting Executive Director of the Centre during the 1960s, initially oversaw the administration of the Publications Centre. The Publications Centre became UBC Press in March 1971.

The Radio Society at the University of British Columbia was initiated in 1937 due to the Student Publicity Campaign. Founding members began working on "Varsity Time," an information variety show broadcast on CJOR that promoted the activities and goals of the University. In 1938, UBC Radio officially became a Literary and Scientific Executive club. During the 1940s and 1950s, the Radio Society (as it became known in 1942) worked with local radio stations to produce and broadcast programs highlighting University news and events. In 1950, the Radio Society began its first independent closed-circuit broadcasts to the University residences. By 1968, the Radio Society, then alternately known as CYVR, was broadcasting to a wider area using carrier current. Due to a new regulation by the CRTC requiring the licensing of carrier current stations, CYVR was closed down for six months in 1974 for operating without a license. The station resumed broadcasting later that year as CiTR. In 1980, CiTR changed its status from a club to a service organization to recognize its role in campus life. CiTR received a low power FM license in 1982 and a standard high power license in 1988. In 1983, the Radio Society began to publish DiSCORDER, a newspaper highlighting Canadian independent music. The Radio Society promotes campus events and the local music scene through its programming on CiTR and its publications.

The British Columbia University Act (1908) stipulated that there should be an appointed Registrar whose duty was to keep all the necessary records and accounts and perform other such duties required by the Senate or Board. Consequently, the role of Registrar at UBC has evolved into a hybrid position, a combination of a senior academic officer and a senior records clerk. The primary functions of the Registrar’s Office include: serving in a secretariat capacity to the Senate and Faculties; implementing admission requirements as determined by the Senate; maintaining student records; providing examination scheduling, room booking and invigilation assignments for examinations; and participating in graduating ceremonies at the University. Since 2001 the Registrar’s Office has been subsumed within Enrolment Services, headed by the Associate Vice-President and Registrar.

Since the inception of the University of British Columbia's Department of Forestry in 1921, the forest surrounding the campus at Point Grey has provided a valuable outdoor laboratory. However, by the late 1930s, the campus forest was insufficient to serve as an experimental or research forest. Malcolm Knapp began to investigate new sites for suitably forested areas within a reasonable distance from the campus. A suitable location near Haney was selected. In 1943 the area was removed from Garibaldi Park and leased to the University for twenty-one years. The Provincial Government deeded the University Research Forest outright to UBC in 1947. An appeal to the forest industry in 1947 resulted in the provision of funding to construct living and working accommodations for forestry students, instructors and research workers in the Research Forest at Loon Lake. The first summer camp for forestry students was held in 1948. Students were required to complete four weeks of practical work at the Research Forest between their third and fourth years. In 1985 and 1986, the UBC/Alex Fraser Research Forest was established in the Cariboo region of British Columbia near Williams Lake. The establishment of this research forest served to address the need for research specific to the interior forests of BC and established another forestry camp.

The history of the University of British Columbia Resources Office can be traced to 1964 with the establishment of the Resources Committee Office. In the early 1970s, the organization became the University Resources Council based at Cecil Green Park. In 1980, the name was changed to the Resources Office, and it appears to have operated until 1983.

Initial attempts to establish a commerce undergraduate degree program began in 1916, with the impetus coming from the Vancouver Board of Trade. Shortage of funds temporarily delayed the implementation of the suggested program, but continued interest resulted in the introduction of five courses in 1929. In September 1939, Ellis Morrow became head of a separate Department of Commerce within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Under Morrow's direction, the department grew, and in 1950, its status was changed to a school under the leadership of Earle D. MacPhee. Six years later, the Senate and Board of Governors approved the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration establishment, with Dr. MacPhee as Dean. UBC started helping establish overseas business schools in 1958, beginning in Malaysia, founded in 1961, and Singapore, founded in 1962. A partnership with Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai's Jiao Tong University was established in 2001. The faculty's name was changed to Sauder School of Business in 2003 after the most significant single private donation to a business school in Canada by William L. Sauder.

In 1945, the Vancouver Board of Trade passed a resolution urging UBC to establish an architecture department. Concurrently, second and third-year Applied Science students formed a Pre-Architecture Club to lobby for implementing an architectural program. The Department of Architecture was subsequently established in 1946 within the Faculty of Applied Science under the direction of Frederick Lasserre. In 1950, the department was reorganized as the School of Architecture. Lasserre, who became director of the School, continued until his tragic death in 1961. He was succeeded in turn by Henry Elder (1961-75), Robert K. Macleod (1975-79), Charles A. Tiers (acting, 1979-80), Douglas Shadbolt (1980-91), and Sanford Hirshen (1991- ). Initially housed in several old army huts, in 1962, the School moved, together with the Department of Fine Arts, into the Frederick Lasserre Building. The School initially offered a five-year undergraduate programme leading to a B.Arch degree. This developed into a three-year second degree B.Arch programme in the late 1950s, and further developed as a master's level programme in the early 1990s. The School also provides workshops to its students, both locally-based programmes and "study abroad" workshops in foreign cities.

Initially, the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences was established in 1969 as a division of the Department of Paediatrics under the UBC Faculty of Medicine. It was established as a School within the Faculty in 1981. For the first 13 years, the programme was funded by private foundation donations and research grants; in 1982, UBC assumed responsibility for most salaries and a portion of the non-salary budget. The size of the School remained constant for its first 20 years, with six faculty members and an average class size of 12. In 1987, the School received a Funds for Excellence Award from the provincial government – this allowed enrollment to double and led to the addition of three new faculty members. In 2008 the School relocated from the James Mather Building (later demolished) to renovated teaching and research spaces in the Friedman Building, allowing for expanded opportunities for research and education. As of 2013, the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences enrolled 35 new M.Sc. students each year and five to six Ph.D. students and two Post-doctoral Fellows. It had a university-based faculty of 15 and a clinical faculty complement of over 170.

The School of Community and Regional Planning was established in 1951 by Dr. Peter Oberlander. The school is dedicated to teaching new planners the skills they need to flourish in a rapidly changing world. They ensure the viability of communities and regions by designing and planning the built environment. In addition to a few undergraduate courses, the school offers a Masters in Community and Regional Planning, a Research Masters, a Masters in Engineering Leadership (MEL) in Urban Systems and a Ph.D. program. The school is accredited by the American Planning Accreditation Board and the Canadian Professional Standards Board.

A significant unit within the school is the award-winning Centre for Human Settlements. CHS conducts policy-oriented research projects worldwide centred around community development and the factors that influence a community's growth and sustainability. This unit was initially tasked with preserving each participating nation's audio and video presentations of the UN's Habitat I (Vancouver, 1976). CHS was also founded (1977), headed, and influenced by Peter Oberlander for several decades. CHS initially reported to an interdisciplinary Board of Management chaired by the Dean of Graduate Studies but later joined SCARP. In the 1990s, the audio and video collection was turned over to the UBC Archives. For several years after Habitat I, CHS held bi-weekly conferences with visiting scholars and professionals in the field. Most of the speakers tied their talks directly to the goals promoted by Habitat I. Frequently; the Centre worked with the speakers to create publications of various types. CHS remains involved with the UN's Habitat events and initiatives. For example, after the 2006 World Urban Forum III (Vancouver), the Centre developed a highly praised digital archive of print and digital materials from all the Habitat events.

The pressure to establish a Home Economics course at the University of British Columbia began as early as 1923. By the mid-1920s, the Provincial Parent-Teacher Federation mounted a campaign to develop a UBC degree course. The organization initiated a fund to endow a chair, and by 1927 it had reached $11,000. The money came in small donations from across the province, and public demand for a program continued to accelerate. In response, the University instituted a Home Economics Degree Course in 1931. However, deep cuts in University funding the following year resulted in the course's temporary suspension. The Provincial Parent-Teachers Federation established a permanent committee in 1933 to oversee the development fund's use, which continued to grow. In addition, the committee provided bursaries to eight students who had begun the UBC program to complete their education at another university. In 1943, the Senate and Board of Governors approved the course's re-establishment at the earliest possible moment. The Parent-Teacher Federation turned over $20,000 to the University in 1945 to help finance the construction and furnishing of campus facilities.
Finally, after holding classes in the campus army huts and enduring a fire in 1948, the new Home Economics Building opened in September 1949. Dorothy Lefebvre served as the first head of the Department of Home Economics. She resigned within a few years and was replaced by Charlotte Black, who served as director until the 1960s. In 1951, the program's status changed as it became the School of Home Economics, part of the Faculty of Arts and Science. It moved to a new building near the UBC Bookstore on East Mall in 1982 and was renamed the School of Family and Nutritional Sciences in 1984. The School's administrative responsibility was transferred to the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in 1992, following an earlier academic review that recommended that the dietetics and nutrition programs be relocated to a science-based faculty. There was strong support for the move. There were already several close links between the School and Agricultural Sciences, particularly between the School's nutritional sciences program and the Faculty's Department of Food Science and Animal Science programs. By 1992 the School was offering a Dietetics program leading to a BSc (Diet.) degree, a Family Science major leading to a BA degree, a Home Economics program leading to a BHE degree, a Nutritional Sciences major leading to a BSc degree, an MA in Family Studies, and MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Human Nutrition. The School was discontinued in 1999 -- the dietetics and nutrition programs remained within the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, while the family studies program transferred to the School of Social Work.

UBC Senate established a Home Economics Committee in 1918 to look into the feasibility of providing Home Economics at UBC. The committee recommended that a course be made available for enrollment by 1920. A Bachelor of Household Science was suggested as a suitable degree. Unfortunately, the recommendation was not adopted due to a lack of finances. However, the actual establishment of a course did occur until the early 1930s. After holding classes in the campus army huts and enduring a fire in 1948, the new Home Economics Building opened in September 1949. Dorothy Lefebvre served as the first head of the Department of Home Economics. She resigned within a few years and was replaced by Charlotte Black, who served as director until the 1960s. In 1951, the program's status changed as it became the School of Home Economics, part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.

The School of Kinesiology was initially named the Bachelor of Physical Education Program. The program has also been titled the School of Physical Education, the School of Physical Education and Recreation, and then the School of Human Kinetics. The first physical education courses were offered in 1946 after the appointment of Robert Osborne (who directed the program until 1972) in 1945. The Bachelor of Physical Education Program ran until 1952, when the program was formed into the School of Physical Education in the Faculty of Arts and Science. In 1960 recreation education was added to the name, though Bachelor of Recreation Education was only conferred starting in 1969. In 1958 a master's program was added to the School of Physical Education. In 1963 the School moved to the Faculty of Education. When Robert Osborne retired in 1978, he was replaced by Robert Morford. At the same time, the School began to align with the more significant University's goals of implementing more academically centred programs. There was a new emphasis on science relating to physical activity, and the Schools laboratories began to develop and grow. In 1979, a Sports Medicine Clinic opened in the Schools John Owen Pavilion on the south campus with specific faculty of this clinic also being associated with the School in teaching and research. In 1992 the School was renamed the School of Human Kinetics, and The Bachelor of Recreation Education was phased out in 1995. In 2011 it was renamed the School of Kinesiology.
The School of Kinesiology's mission is to generate, advance, and disseminate knowledge about human movements and enhance all populations' health and quality of life across diverse settings. Their specific goals are to advance understanding about a) the factors underlying human physical performance, (b) the nature of the human quest for excellence in competitive and expressive forms of human movement, and (c) the role of sport, leisure and exercise in society from both a contemporary and a historical perspective. In addition, to teach students about physical activity in general and about sport, exercise and leisure in particular; to prepare educated professionals to serve the present and future needs of society in a variety of professional settings related to vibrant health, leisure, sport and physical education fields; and facilitate the application of pertinent knowledge to professional and lay agencies concerned with the promotion of recreation, physical education, sport, fitness and active health at local, provincial and national, and international levels.

In response to the growing need for professional librarians in Western Canada and with strong support from UBC President Norman MacKenzie and University Librarian Neal Harlow, the School of Librarianship was established at UBC by Samuel Rothstein in 1961. Housed in the upper north wing of the UBC Main Library, the School operated as a professional school within the Faculty of Arts and Science. It opened with an enrolment of 30 students and four full-time faculty members. In May 1962, the School graduated its first Bachelor of Library Science (BLS) class. In February 1963, the School's program was accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association (ALA). ALA accreditation allowed the American and Canadian Library Associations to recognize the School as fully meeting the accepted standards for graduate education in library and information science and enabled the School's BLS graduates to seek employment in Canadian and American libraries. In order to incorporate new technologies into the curriculum and prepare students better for their professional careers as information specialists, the School replaced the one-year postgraduate BLS program with a two-year program leading to the degree of Master of Library Science (MLS) in 1971. The School's MLS program was later re-accredited by ALA in 1976, 1985, 1992, and 1998. In 1981, in conjunction with the Department of History, the School offered a two-year program in Archival Studies, leading to the Master of Archival Studies (MAS) degree, the first graduate program in archival studies in North America. The first Archival class comprised eight students and one full-time faculty member.
In 1984, the School changed its name from the School of Librarianship to the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS). In 1990, both the MLS and MAS programs were made subject to the academic policies of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Still, the School remained within the administrative jurisdiction of the Faculty of Arts. In 1995, the School graduated the first students with the newly re-named Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS). In 1998, the School initiated a Joint MAS/MLIS program and a First Nations concentration in the MLIS and MAS programs. In 1999, the School offered a multidisciplinary Master of Arts in Children's Literature program (MACL) in conjunction with the Departments of English, Language and Literacy Education and Theatre, Film and Creative Writing. In response to the educational needs of already working professional librarians and archivists, the School also offered a continuing education program leading to the Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS). In September 2003, the School admitted six students to its inaugural Ph.D. program in Library, Archival and Information Studies. In 2020 the School's name was changed again to the School of Information to reflect the evolution of the information professions and changes within the disciplinary areas of the library, archival and information studies.
Since 1961, the Directors of the School include Samuel Rothstein (1961-1970), Roy Stokes (1970-1981), Basil Stuart-Stubbs (1981-1992), Ken Haycock (1992-2002), Edie Rasmussen (2003-2009), Caroline Haythornthwaite (2010-2015), Luanne Freund (2015-2020) and Errik Kwakkel (2020).

In 1946, Harry Adaskin was appointed UBC's first music instructor and assumed the Chair of Music. The Department remained relatively small for the next decade. In the early 1950s, two committees, established to consider the future development of the music program, recommended that the Department be expanded and elevated to the status of a School within the Faculty of Arts and Science; this recommendation was supported by the Community Arts Council and the public at large. The Department did expand its program, first offering a Bachelor of Music degree in 1959, a Master of Music in 1966, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1973. However, it was not established as a full-fledged School until 1986. Today, the School of Music offers specialized instruction in music performance, composition, and scholarship. It also offers introductory courses in music history, theory, and appreciation to students outside the School and presents live performances and lectures by students, faculty, and outside guests. Since its founding, the Department/School of Music has been headed by Harry Adaskin (1946-58), G. Welton Marquis (1958-72), Donald M. McCorkle (1972-76), Robert B. Morris (1976-78), Wallace Berry (1978-85), William E. Benjamin (1985-91), Robert Silverman (1991-96), Jesse Read (1996-2007), Richard Kurth (2007-2018), Alexander Fisher (Acting Director, 2018-19) and Patrick Carrabré (2019-present).

In 1919 the University of British Columbia instituted the first-degree course in nursing in the British Empire. The original aim of the program was "to provide a liberal education for the student nurse and equip her to meet all professional demands, especially those in the Public Health field and for executive posts." Ethel Johns was selected for the dual role of coordinator of the University program and Director of Nursing at Vancouver General Hospital. In 1924 the Departments of Nursing and Public Health were merged to form the Department of Nursing and Health in the Faculty of Applied Science. Mabel Gray was appointed department head the following year, succeeded by Evelyn Mallory in 1944. In 1951 the program was reorganized as the School of Nursing, with Evelyn Mallory as Director. From its beginnings, the School has evolved and expanded. For example, in 1991, it offered baccalaureate programs leading to the BSN for high-school graduates and registered nurses, a master's program leading to the MSN, and non-credit courses in continuing nursing education. Since 1951, the School's Directors have been Evelyn Mallory (1951-67), Elizabeth McCann (1967-71), Muriel Uprichard (1971-76), MarilynWillman (1977-93), Katharyn May (1994-2000), and Sally Thorne (2002-10).

Instruction in social work at the University of British Columbia dates back to the late 1920s. The University implemented a two-year diploma course within the Department of Economics, Sociology and Political Science. Initially coordinated by S.E. Beckett and then C.W. Topping, the program slowly expanded. In 1943, Marjorie J. Smith became the first full-time instructor in social work at the University. Two years later, the course evolved into the Department of Social Work with Smith as its first head. In 1950, the department's status was again changed as it became the School of Social Work within the Faculty of Arts. In 1999, the School of Family and Nutritional Sciences was discontinued, and the Family Studies program was transferred to the School of Social Work. The School was then known as the School of Social Work and Family Studies. In 2007, the Family Studies program was moved to the School of Sociology.