University of Toronto
With more than 16,500 faculty, over 700 undergraduate programs and more than 102,000 students on three campuses, the University of Toronto is in a class of its own. St. George, the leafy downtown campus, has historic stone buildings alongside sleek modern architecture and the west-end Mississauga campus borders on protected Greenbelt land. The 300-acre Scarborough campus sits next to Highland Creek in the city’s east end. Given U of T’s size, one might think professors would be too busy for undergraduates, but the university fosters small-group learning opportunities, with more than 350 first-year seminars. More than 2,000 undergraduate courses now have a sustainability focus. The university also supports student startup companies, and aspiring entrepreneurs can grow their ideas in over a dozen accelerators and more than 250 courses. The Scarborough campus offers co-ops in more than 50 arts, science, computer science and business programs.
The university is expanding its residence options with four new buildings, two on the St. George campus and one each on the Scarborough and Mississauga campuses, set to open before 2027. “Discover how far you can go at a place built to inspire, challenge and support you,” says president Melanie Woodin. “We are consistently ranked as Canada’s leading university and one of the best in the world. We offer the resources for every talented student to turn their curiosity into expertise and their ambition into achievement.”
Research is also a significant focus at the university, with $1.5 billion in sponsored research funding going to U of T and partner hospitals and 330 Canada Research Chairs. Meanwhile, U of T’s School of Cities brings together researchers from across disciplines to address the challenges facing urban areas.
Campus buzz: Students can access required textbooks for free using the student union’s “take one, leave one” Little Library.
Quick facts
Tuition (includes compulsory ancillary fees) $8,140 ($9,290 out-of-province students)
Median Entering Grades
Arts: 90% | Science: 92% | Commerce: 92% | Engineering: 96%
Student Body
Undergraduates: Full-time: 74,308 | Part-time: 6,265
Graduates: Full-time: 20,304 | Part-time: 1,554
International Students: First-year: 28.8% | Graduate: 28.7%
Housing Facts
Residence Spaces: 11,159 (for 2025, 76.6% of first-years who applied for residence got a spot)
Cost of double room with meals: $13,775 to $22,405
Cost of single room with meals: $15,938 to $26,207
Cost of apartment-style: $8,123 to $30,240
Standout programs
AI Engineering: Offered at the downtown campus, this minor program covers the fundamentals of AI, which has a wide variety of applications from autonomous vehicles to computer image recognition.
Game Studies: This Mississauga-campus program teaches students to create and build games while studying them critically.
Management Co-op: In this Scarborough-campus program, modelled after an MBA, students get on-the-job learning through 12 months of co-op employment.
Reputation
Ranked #2 (Medical Doctoral) among faculty members and hiring managers in the 2025 reputation survey, powered by Angus Reid Group.