University of Toronto

This article is concerning the university's main field in downtown provincial capital. For alternative uses, see University of provincial capital (disambiguation).
University of provincial capital
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Heraldic accomplishment of the University of provincial capital
Latin: Universitas Torontonensis
Former names
King's faculty (1827–1849)
Motto Latin: Velut arbor ævo
Motto in English
As a tree through the ages
Type Public university
Established March fifteen, 1827
Endowment C$2.142 billion (excl. colleges)
Chancellor Michael Wilson
President Meric Gertler
Academic employees
2,547
Administrative employees
4,590
Students 84,556
Undergraduates 68,114
Postgraduates 16,442
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates: 43°39′42″N 79°23′42″W
Campus Urban, seventy one hectares (180 acres)
Colours
 
Athletics CIS – OUA, CUFLA
Sports 44 varsity groups
Nickname Varsity Blues
Mascot True Blue
Affiliations AAU, ACU, AUCC, U15, URA
Website utoronto.ca
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The University of provincial capital (U of T, UToronto, or provincial capital) may be a public analysis university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, settled on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. it had been based by charter in 1827 as King's faculty, the primary establishment of upper learning within the colony of higher Canada. Originally controlled by the Church of England, the university assumed the current name in 1850 upon turning into a laic establishment. As a body university, it contains twelve faculties, that disagree in character and history, every holding substantial autonomy on money and institutional affairs. it's 2 satellite campuses placed in Scarborough and Mississauga.

Academically, the University of provincial capital is noted for powerful movements and curricula in literary criticism and subject field, well-known conjointly because the provincial capital faculty. The university was the birthplace of endocrine and vegetative cell analysis, and was the positioning of the primary sensible microscope, the event of multi-touch technology, the identification of Cygnus X-1 as a region, and therefore the theory of NP-completeness. By a big margin, it receives the foremost annual research funding of any Canadian university. it's one in every of 2 members of the Association of yankee Universities placed outside the us.

The Varsity Blues ar the athletic groups representing the university in extramural league matches, with significantly long and storied ties to gridiron soccer and hockey. The university's Hart home is associate early example of the North yankee student centre, at the same time serving cultural, intellectual and recreational interests at intervals its giant Gothic-revival advanced.

The University of provincial capital has educated 2 Governors General of Canada and 4 Prime Ministers of Canada, four foreign leaders, fourteen Justices of the Supreme Court, and has been connected with 10 philanthropist laureates.