Toronto, University of
Toronto, University of, the provincial university of Ontario and the largest institution of higher learning in Canada. Among its faculties (schools) are arts and sciences, applied science and engineering, architecture and landscape architecture, dentistry, education, forestry, graduate studies, law, library and information sciences, management studies, medicine, music, nursing, pharmacy, physical and health education, and social work.
The university has six constituent colleges: University (founded in 1853), New (1962), Innis (1964), and Woodsworth (1974), all in Toronto; and Scarborough (1964) in West Hill and Erindale (1964) in Mississauga. Federated with the university are the University of St. Michael's College (1852), the University of Trinity College (1851), Victoria University (1836), Massey College (1963), and four theological colleges—Emmanuel (United Church of Canada, 1928), Knox (Presbyterian, 1844), Regis (Roman Catholic, 1930), and Wycliffe (Anglican, 1877). All are located in Toronto.
The university developed from King's College, an Anglican school chartered in 1827 and opened in 1843. In 1850 the college was secularized and renamed the University of Toronto.