# University of Toronto

> The University of Toronto is a publicly funded, tuition-supported research university operating three Greater Toronto Area campuses, hundreds of academic programs, a large graduate enterprise, affiliated teaching hospitals and a commercialization network. Its useful lesson is not a ranking but an operating choice: it replaced a narrow, church-controlled founding model with a secular federation, then learned to connect deep scholarship to hospitals, government, industry and startups at unusual scale.

- **Founded:** 1827
- **Headquarters:** Toronto, Canada
- **Founders:** John Strachan (Founder and first president of King's College, U of T's predecessor)
- **Team size:** 13,367 faculty, staff and librarians in Fall 2025 (3,653 faculty, 9,546 staff and 168 librarians); the supplied company record estimates 29,000 employees under a broader counting method.
- **Products:** Undergraduate education, Graduate and professional education, Research and innovation, Entrepreneurship and technology transfer, Libraries and scholarly resources
- **Notable:** Discovery of insulin at the university in 1921 and subsequent Nobel recognition., Foundational work in stem cells, the electron microscope, early operational computing and deep learning., C$1.73 billion in research funds awarded with partner hospitals in 2024-25.

## Products & services

- **Undergraduate education** — More than 700 programs across humanities, sciences, commerce, computing, engineering, kinesiology, music and architecture, plus professional second-entry programs.
- **Graduate and professional education** — Master's, doctoral and professional training across a large, research-intensive academic system.
- **Research and innovation** — Sponsored and fundamental research, shared infrastructure, grant administration and multidisciplinary institutes, with C$1.73 billion in 2024-25 research funds awarded with partner hospitals.
- **Entrepreneurship and technology transfer** — IP support, licensing, incubators, ONRamp, UTEST, investor preparation and industry matching for university inventions and startups.
- **Libraries and scholarly resources** — A 40-library system holding more than 12 million volumes and nearly four million electronic resources.
- **Continuing and lifelong learning** — Non-degree and professional learning for adults updating skills throughout their careers.

## Achievements

- Discovery of insulin at the university in 1921 and subsequent Nobel recognition.
- Foundational work in stem cells, the electron microscope, early operational computing and deep learning.
- C$1.73 billion in research funds awarded with partner hospitals in 2024-25.
- More than 1,500 venture-backed companies associated with U of T entrepreneurs, which raised over C$14 billion and created more than 20,000 jobs over five years.
- More than 720,000 alumni across 200 countries and territories as of Fall 2025.
- Top-ranked Canadian university across several major international ranking systems in 2025-26.
- A library network of 40 locations with more than 12 million volumes in 341 languages.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Announced a multi-year partnership with Cohere to support secure, responsible AI adoption across teaching, research, services and operations.
- **2026-05** — Joined the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network Incubators program to help turn mobility research into market-ready technology and new ventures.
- **2026-03** — Announced plans with the Indian Institute of Science for an AI and health centre of excellence focused on predictive care.
- **2026-02** — Expanded a long-running relationship with Ericsson into a strategic partnership on wireless infrastructure, advanced computing and applied AI.
- **2025-12** — Launched Electric Vehicle Innovation Ontario with seven other universities, placing 37 graduate students at 20 mobility companies.
- **2025-08** — Signed a multi-year Nissan North America partnership on vehicle-to-grid research.
- **2025-04** — Established BASF's first Canadian university framework agreement around self-driving materials laboratories.

## Links

- Website: https://www.utoronto.ca/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-toronto/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/uoft
- GitHub: https://github.com/utoronto
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/universitytoronto
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uoft/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universitytoronto
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uoft

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Last updated: 2026-08-23