As of 2019, Carleton enrols about 27,000 undergraduate and upwards of 4,000 graduate students. Carleton has a 150-acre campus located west of Old Ottawa South, close to The Glebe and Confederation Heights. It is bounded to the north by the Rideau Canal and Dow's Lake and to the south by the Rideau River. Carleton has more than 159,000 alumni worldwide, and has produced 6 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Royal Society Fellows, 20 recipients of the Order of Canada, 8 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship awardees, and 3 National Killam Award recipients.