About UofT

The University of Toronto (UofT) is a public university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The university's main campus, St. George, is located in Downtown Toronto surrounding Queen's Park and the Ontario Legislature. Its two other campuses, the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) and the University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM), are located in the eastern and western ends of the Greater Toronto Area.

A 2006 university ranking by Newsweek International ranks the University of Toronto number-one in Canada, 18th worldwide, and 4th outside of the United States. Similar academic rankings consistently place the university among the world's best.

Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, and the extraction of insulin.

Facts:

70,143 students (62,097 full-time), 11,807 faculty and staff and 433,386 living graduates75 PhD programs, 17 professional facultiesU of T has six Nobel Prize-winning graduates, the highest number of any Canadian universityMore than half of full-time undergraduates are womenThe Royal Ontario Museum, Pollution Probe, Canadian Opera Company, and the Toronto Symphony were all started at U of T