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© University of Toronto

Motto: Velut arbor aevo (Translation: "As a tree with the passage of time")
Founded 1827
School type Public
President Robert Birgeneau
Location Toronto, Ontario
Enrollment 63,109 (48,863 at St. George Campus, 6,834 at UTSC, 7,412 at UTM)
Campus surroundings Urban
Campus size 2.3 square kilometres
Sports teams Varsity Blues
Mascot True Blue

The University of Toronto (U of T), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is the largest university in Canada with about 50,000 students.

The University was established on March 15, 1827, when King's College at York (Toronto) was granted its Royal Charter. King's College became the University of Toronto in 1849.

The University is comprised of three campuses, four constituent colleges, four federated colleges, and three federated universities. (Federated colleges and universities were incorporated into the University; constituent colleges were created by the University.) U of T's four federated colleges are seminaries which are associated with The Toronto School of Theology.

Every arts and science students at U of T is a member of one of its seven "colleges" (the federated universities and constituent colleges), which acts, ideally, as a smaller-scale intellectual and social community for its members. In practice, however, they are simply residential in nature and, while U of T's colleges are based on the college system in use at Oxford and Cambridge, they do not have tutors as such. Some first-year seminars and academic programs are offered by some colleges.

The University of Toronto is now widely acknowledged to be one of Canada's top schools. It attracts the best students from Ontario and the rest of Canada, and has a growing number of international students. It has had more Rhodes Scholars than any other Canadian university within the past thirty years. This had much to do with U of T having far more money than any other university, having a two billion dollar endowment. U of T was also ranked first in the Maclean's rankings of Canadian medical-doctoral universities for the tenth year in a row.

Despite these achievements in the academic arena, U of T has a reputation for housing a large proportion of unhappy students, in large part because of its size, the fact that most of its students are commuters, and the competitive nature of certain programs, particularly in science and engineering.

Complete List of Colleges and Divisions

Campuses

Federated Universities

Constituent Colleges

Professional and Graduate Faculties

Colleges and Faculties Comprising the Toronto School of Theology

Other

Noted Graduates and Faculty

External links