Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto is one of the oldest universities in North America and one of the most important research universities in the world. It is located in Toronto, the most livable city in the world. The university has 3 campuses, 300 undergraduate majors and 32 libraries. When you stroll through the leafy campus and walk through the century-old buildings, even in the huge Roberds Research Library, you can feel the other side of the University of Toronto: it leaves enough space for every student to study and explore. The University of Toronto consists of three colleges, located in downtown Toronto and its adjacent areas. Including St. George's College in downtown Toronto, founded in 1827. It is the earliest birthplace, and now there are seven colleges. Scarborough College, located in the northeast of Toronto, started at 1964, about 33 kilometers away from the downtown campus, covering an area of * * * 300 mu; Another campus is Erindale, located in Mississauga, 33km from Toronto, and 1967 officially opened. 1827, John Strachan was granted a royal charter to establish King's College. This college is the predecessor of the University of Toronto. Like other famous Canadian universities with a long history, the early University of Toronto was controlled by the Church of England (other examples are that Queen's College was founded by church of scotland, and the Baptist Church even controlled McMaster until 1957). After 100 years of development, the University of Toronto in Canada has become "If I am second, no one dares to be the first". Everything in the university is first-class from aerospace technology to zoology. The number of professors who won the Nobel Prize is also the largest in Canada. There are 54,000 students, including 30,484 undergraduates and 3,654,438+068 international students, accounting for 6%. There are 6000 teachers.
The University of Toronto is the largest modern comprehensive university in Canada, located in Toronto, Ontario. In addition to the main campus, St. George's campus, there are two parts: scarborough campus and Ander campus. The main campus is in the city center, but it is quiet in the noise. Ancient buildings and modern buildings complement each other, with lush greenery and towering old trees. In simplicity and elegance, it shows a dynamic modern university style.
A giant university like Toronto can provide a rich curriculum plan in almost every conceivable professional field. From aviation engineering to zoology, from art education to Ukrainian studies, from architecture to psychiatry, thousands of courses are offered to students. The College of Arts and Sciences alone offers more than 2,000 courses.
The number of professional colleges, departments and disciplines far exceeds that of other universities in Canada. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest academic unit with departments of linguistics, English, Italian, Slavic and literature, social sciences, history, philosophy, economics, anthropology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, computer science, fine arts, East Asian studies, geography, geology, Middle East and Islamic studies, physics, psychology and mathematics. The College of Arts and Sciences also manages more than 50 teaching plans of nine semi-independent colleges, including innis College, New College, San Miguel College, Trinity College, University College, Victoria College and Webster College.
The University of Toronto has not only trained many talents for Canada, but also many of her alumni have worked abroad, which has had a good influence on their reputation. The outstanding figures she has cultivated include Robertson Davis, a writer and playwright, Rothrop Frye, a literary critic and writer, marshall mcluhan, a communication expert, Margaret Allawood and Stephen Laycock, famous film directors arthur hiller and Norman Giveson, famous actors Donald Sulan and Raymond Marseille, and famous doctor Norman Bethune. Former Prime Ministers William Leon McCarthy King, Arthur Main and lester pearson, media celebrities Adriana Clarkson and Barbara Floyd, Pianist Glenn Yold, opera artists Teresa Stratus, Lois Marshall, Jon Wickell and Maureen Forrest.
There are many research institutions in the school, most of which are engaged in training graduate students and even undergraduates at the same time. These research institutions include:
The Center for Technology and Social Development is committed to making teaching and research pay attention to the humanistic, social and ecological connotation of technology, and seek to apply these comprehensive knowledge to evaluate engineering methods and results, so as to keep the development of technology in harmony with the original intention of mankind.
The Center for Urban and Community Studies is a multi-functional research institution. Its recent research directions include housing market and Canadian housing policy research, national cultural model and development trend research, social network and structure trend analysis, social ecology, behavior norms in urban environment, urbanization and urban organization in developing countries, etc.
One of the main components of the survey science center is land survey.
The Russian and Eastern European Research Center is the largest research center of its kind in Canada, established in 1963, and one of the largest and most popular research institutions in North America. It is assigned to organize academic conferences, promote academic exchanges with the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, support personal research and publication of researchers, conduct language training for diplomats and students, and provide consulting services to the government or business community. In recent years, the center has paid special attention to the new changes and turmoil in the region and accepted the task of comprehensively analyzing these changes and explaining their importance to Canada and the world.
The Library and Information Science Research Center is the first research center of its kind in Canada.
Other research institutions include: religious research center; Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (the only institution of its kind in Canada); Medieval Pope Institute (the oldest research institution of humanities in Canada); Institute for Policy Analysis; Institute of Medicine; Medieval Institute; Asia-Pacific Joint Research Center of University of Toronto and York University; International research center; Center for industrial relations; Institute of Health Management; Graduate drama research center; Environmental research institute; Aerospace Research Institute; Institute of Environment and Health Care; Centre for Criminology Research; Children's Institute; * * * 26 research institutions such as the Research Center on Ageing.
In addition, Ontario Institute of Education and Science (OISE), founded in 1965, is an institution in Ontario, but its academic leadership belongs to the University of Toronto. This is a rising worldwide educational institution, where many foreign students from the third world study. Dr. Xu Meide of the Institute is an authority on China education abroad.
There are 66 doctoral programs, 14 professional colleges and 10 teaching hospitals, which together constitute the huge scientific research system of the University of Toronto.
1923, Frederick Wanjin and J J R mcleod won the Nobel Prize for discovering the role of insulin in controlling diabetes. John C. Polanyi won the 1986 Nobel Prize for his leading achievements in chemical literature, which made progress in the development of laser. 1987 In February, astronomer Edith Shelton discovered a pulsar at the observatory of the University of Toronto in Chile, and later named it supernova 1987A. In 1989, medical researchers Cui, Neumann Bowald and Jack Riodan published their research results of isolating the gene that causes fibrocyst. Other research achievements include the successful development of the first electronic pacemaker, the successful manufacture of artificial larynx, the invention of lung transplantation, artificial pancreas, and the first electron microscope in North America. The University of Toronto has also developed a device that can measure and analyze various harmful trace elements in the air, such as super sniffer, supersonic aircraft, microwave powered aircraft and plastics that can be biodecomposed and cleaned.
Research achievements in humanities and social sciences include Atlas of Canadian History, Canadian Biographical Dictionary, Erasmus's Works, etc. Among them, dozens of Canadian biographical dictionaries are considered as the largest academic publications in Canadian history.
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