___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ labour market, The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering is introducing a co-op initiative in the MEng program to align industry work terms with academic aspirations. The Rotman School of Management has developed an innovative new Master of Management program to provide business leadership skills to non-business graduates as part of its broader program shift with less dependence on the MBA. Medicine.
Last year, the University also graduated 984 healthcare workers with professional master’s degrees in public health, nursing and medicine, in addition to 734 teachers and social workers, and over 1,100 doctorates. Upon graduation, U of T graduates become part of a large and diverse global network of over 700,000 alumni, who contribute to civil society in more than 200 countries and territories, creating 3.7 million jobs and generating $368 billion in annual revenues. The University is actively exploring and integrating new technology into curricula and academic pedagogy, including opportunities offered by alternative delivery models and AI.
To help support academic leaders and faculty members, the University is investing $15 million to advance our digital strategy and responsible use of AI, which includes a dedicated Digital Learning Innovations Office, digital educational technology specialists, and a dynamic academic toolbox of resources (AI Kitchen). Across the University, 80% of undergraduate students graduate within six years of starting their program, with higher rates among professional programs in the health sciences. This rate has grown steadily from 69% in 2011 and is now the same as the average for highly selective public schools in the United States and comparable with Canadian peers.
The actual graduation rate of students is even higher as these figures exclude students who move on to second-entry professional programs prior to graduating from their original first-entry program. And increasingly these students are graduating with employment experience through curricular or co-curricular opportunities; and with more than 22,500 undergraduate course enrolments taught each year by preeminent faculty members like University Professors, endowed Chair holders, or those holding Canada Research Chairs, many graduates have been taught by leading global experts.
As such, according to the prestigious Times Higher Education magazine, U of T graduates are among the world’s most desirable employees – ranked 2nd among publicly funded universities in North America and 13th place globally. Many divisions with professional health programs, such as the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, continue to expand and innovate with their use of simulation labs, designed to improve access to controlled primary, acute care, and community health settings where students can fine-tune their skills while building their confidence and competence in the clinical field – and reduce pressures on hospitals for clinical placements.
At the Factor- Inwentash Faculty of Social work, simulation has been an innovative signature pedagogy of its Master of Social Work program and recognized as the Toronto Simulation Model. Graduating and Employment The University also has programs that help connect graduates to the labour force. The Faculty of Arts & Science’s signature Backpack to Briefcase (b2B) program, for example, connects recent grads with experienced A&S alumni to learn about the lived experiences in industry and academia and gain insights about how their degree can launch into a variety of exciting professions and pathways.
UofT also continues to grow its Career Learning Network (CLNx), which helps students find pathways to meaningful work by matching them with jobs, providing skills development tools, and connecting them to industry partners to build their professional networks. The number of companies The University of Toronto awarded more than 23,500 undergraduate and graduate degrees in the 2025 calendar year, including 855 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and dentists.
Many of these graduates have been working in community health care systems for several years through clinical rotations in their programs – for example, 45% of medical trainee days spent in Ontario hospitals are comprised of U of T clinical clerks, residents and clinical fellows, and 54% of new specialist physicians in Ontario graduated from the Temerty Faculty of Enrolment Report 2025-26 16 University of Toronto