University of Toronto St George

Canada

Established in 1827, the University of Toronto is a public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university has one of the strongest research and teaching faculties in North America. As a collegiate university, it comprises twelve colleges, each with substantial autonomy on financial and institutional affairs. The university has two satellite campuses in Scarborough and Mississauga. The university has 10 Nobel Laureates affiliated with it.

The University of Toronto acceptance rate is 30% with admission requirements such as 3.7 GPA, 30 IB Points or an excellent percentage in Year 12 examinations. The University of Toronto across its 3 campuses, offers more than 700 undergraduate programs and over 200 master’s and doctoral programs. The university comprises of various faculties: Faculty of Arts and Science; Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering; Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design; Faculty of Music; Faculty of Forestry; Faculty of Information; Faculty of Medicine; Faculty of Nursing; Faculty of Pharmacy; Faculty of Dentistry; Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education; Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Faculty of Law; Rotman School of Management; School of Public Policy and Governance; Ontario Institute for Studies in Education; Faculty of Social Work; and Toronto School of Theology. The university follows a semester-based academic calendar.

The total student population at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus is more than 60,500 students of which over 43,500 students are enrolled in the undergraduate programs.

The University of Toronto is the birthplace of insulin and stem cell research, and was the site of the first practical electron microscope, the development of multi-touch technology, the identification of the first black hole Cygnus X-1, and the development of the theory of NP-completeness. It is the member of the Association of American Universities, a consortium of the leading North American research universities. It is the only other member of the association outside of USA; the other university is the McGill University.