The University of Toronto (U of T) is a
public research university in the city of
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada. The institution comprises sixteen academic faculties and a
collegiate framework of eleven colleges within its principal campus, which surrounds
Queen's Park in the
Downtown district.
Newsweek places the university first in Canada, and 18th worldwide, 9th among public universities, and among the top 5 universities outside the United States. It was chartered in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in the colony of
Upper Canada. At first controlled by members of the
Church of England and the colonial establishment, the university acquired its present name in 1850 upon becoming a secular institution. Since the creation of
University College in 1853 as the first of its constituent colleges, the university had also incorporated the ecclesiastical schools of
Trinity College,
Victoria University and
St. Michael's College among others into its organization. There are two other campuses along with the St. George campus downtown Toronto—
University of Toronto Scarborough and
University of Toronto Mississauga.
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