The University of Toronto

 
Established in 1827, the University of Toronto has one of the strongest research and teaching faculties in North America, presenting top students at all levels with an intellectual environment unmatched in depth and breadth on any other Canadian campus. Its reputation extends far beyond the continent. The University of Toronto has three campuses: Downtown Toronto (St. George), Mississauga (in the west) and Scarborough (in the east).he University of Toronto is committed to being an internationally significant research university, with undergraduate, graduate and professional programs of excellent quality.

The University of Toronto is dedicated to fostering an academic community in which the learning and scholarship of every member may flourish, with vigilant protection for individual human rights, and a resolute commitment to the principles of equal opportunity, equity and justice.

The University of Toronto is determined to build on its past achievements and so enhance its research and teaching. The University anticipates that it will remain a large university. It will continue to exploit the advantages of size by encouraging scholarship in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and the professions. It will continue to value its inheritance of colleges and federated universities that give many students an institutional home within the large University. It will strive to make its campuses attractive settings for scholarly activity.

The University of Toronto has international students from 161 countries and regions. The top five countries/regions of origin are China, India, United States, Brazil and South Korea.The University of Toronto offers about 700 undergraduate programs in Humanities & Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Commerce & Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Kinesiology & Physical Education, Music and Architecture.The University offers second entry professional programs in Education, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Law and Medicine.  

The University of Toronto is one of the world’s great public research universities where talented students have affordable access to some of the world’s best scholars and researchers. No university in Canada, and few in North America, can match the range and reputation of U of T’s programs.The University will continue to promote high quality research. The University is committed to:
 -  Providing an environment conducive to research;
 -  Emphasizing research, publication and related professional contributions in defining the  creer  

    expectations of professorial staff;
 -  Ensuring that faculties and schools engaged in undergraduate teaching also engage in graduate  

    teaching and research;
 -  Maintaining a capacity to respond selectively to new fields of research as they emerge;
  - Requiring national and international peer assessment of the quality of its programs;
  - Collaborating with other universities, industry, business, the professions, public sector institutions 

    and governments, where appropriate to research objectives;
  - Providing information, library and research services of the highest international standards.

The University will strive to ensure that its graduates are educated in the broadest sense of the term, with the ability to think clearly, judge objectively, and contribute constructively to society.The University wishes to increase its ability to attract students from elsewhere in Canada and abroad, in the belief that while these students gain an education their presence will enrich the experience of students from the local community. 

Undergraduates are taught in the Faculty of Arts and Science and in a number of professional faculties. Students in Arts and Science are registered in a college. They can take classes in their college and use college libraries; some students live in their college; for many their college is the locus of social and sporting activities. The University continues to regard college life as an important part of undergraduate education.

College life is experienced most fully when students live in residence. The University would like to make it possible for more undergraduates, in Arts and Science, and from the professional faculties, to live in residence.

The quality of graduate education and the quality of research are closely linked in this as in any university. The University of Toronto's determination to remain a major research institution is therefore in itself a commitment to high quality graduate teaching.

U of T has  14,382 new full-time students entering our First Entry. Undergraduate Programs in Fall 2014-15:
7,979 at our St. George Campus
3,151 at our Scarborough Campus
3,252 at our Mississauga Campus
* First Entry programs include Arts & Science, Applied Science & Engineering, Architecture, Kinesiology & Physical Education, Music and Transitional Year Program.

 Faculty Members includes all active faculty members with teaching/research responsibilities but excludes Research Fellows and 4,778 Teaching Assistants.the university has 537000 alumni around the world as of fall 2014.Trying to articulate a university's standing in the world is inevitably a subjective exercise. International rankings provide one independent measure of how U of T compares to other universities. As these rankings make clear, we stand among the best public universities in the world and are recognized as Canada's top university.

The University of Toronto provides its students with resources that compete with the world’s elite universities. U of T’s library system is ranked among the top five universities in its holdings of books, periodicals and other reference materials. There are outstanding athletic facilities, extensive computer networking services and incredible research facilities that help to attract, and keep, U of T’s greatest resource – its human talent.

The University of Toronto has more than 800 student clubs across all three campuses.    The University of Toronto has 44 libraries and more than 22 million holdings.The University's library system is the third largest in North America.The University of Toronto's operating budget for 2014-15 is $2.0 billion. The University of Toronto contributes $15.7 billion to the Canadian economy every year.

The University of Toronto has created 59 new companies based on research and technologies in the last three years, more than any other institution in North America.    The University annually publishes a compendium of detailed information and statistics called Facts & Figures.