University of Toronto in Toronto, ON

The University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario Canada is Canada's largest university. It was established in 1827 and has 70,143 students, 11,807 faculty and staff and 422,000 alumni. The annual operating budget of this university is $1.187 billion with $623 million in research grant and contract support.

The University of Toronto has environmentally-friendly campuses. They are the St. George campus with 50,871 students, the U of T at Scarborough with 9,603, and the U of T Mississauga with 9,669. Other locations are the Institute for Aerospace Studies in north-west Toronto, the Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill, and the Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill, King Township.

 The campuses have renowned heritage buildings and new buildings with award-winning architectural designs. The University of Toronto is home to one of the top four research libraries in North America.

The university offers 75 PhD programs and has 17 professional faculties. It's the 15th largest employer in the Greater Toronto area.

The University of Toronto is credited with developing the first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant and artificial pancreas. Research at the university resulted in the development of the chemical laser, and the anti-blackout suit that was later adapted to create the astronaut space suit. The U of T created the baby cereal, Pablum.

The University of Toronto has six Nobel Prize-winning graduates. Just under 10 percent of the student population is international.

The university has had several distinguished people work on its faculty. A few of these individuals are astronomer Helen Sawyer Hogg, John C. Polanyi who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and 1923 Nobel Prize winners, Sir Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod.