___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ attract the next generation of global research talent through its new postdoctoral funding initiative. International enrolment plans have been adjusted downward over last year in recognition of the shift in the international recruitment market and align them with actual enrolments over the last few years. Even with these adjustments, intakes next will be larger than this year’s low levels, which will increase international enrolment over the forecast period.
The overall plan keeps the share of international students at 28.4% by 2030-31, which is almost unchanged from the 28.0% recorded this year but lower than the 30.4% recorded in 2023-24. To ensure students continue to receive a world-class education, divisions continue to innovate their academic programming, including developing curricular and co-curricular options for students to participate in experiential learning so that we can continue to increase the number of graduates who have these experiences (currently at 65%).
Academic divisions also continue to develop new academic programs, collaborations, and research opportunities to help students benefit from the wide variety of expertise across the University and contribute to its research mission. This includes growing opportunities for students to develop multidisciplinary skills centered around sustainability, commensurate with the University’s own recognition of the world’s most sustainable university. The current five-year plan assumes that graduate enrolments will increase by 9.2% over the next five years, which will increase the proportion of graduate students by 1.6 percentage points to 24% of total enrolment.
Most of this growth is expected to be in professional master’s and doctoral programs which include significant domestic enrolment increases. As a result, the University anticipates needing an additional 2,000 funded graduate spaces from the government. Funding for these spaces remains a point of advocacy with the Province. Students are also able to access a number of valuable resources when they’ve completed their academic journey, to help start their career. This includes mentorship and networking programs with some of our 700,000 U of T alumni worldwide and tens of thousands of global industry and academic partners.
Of the 89% of graduates from our undergraduate programs who report being employed full-time in jobs related to their program, some of these will start their own businesses or develop their ideas for market. As a premier global institution for entrepreneurship, students have access to 12 accelerators across all three campuses, more than 200 entrepreneurship courses, and networking opportunities in one of the most vibrant innovation ecosystems in Canada. This report also provides contextual highlights around the student lifecycle from admissions to graduation and the experiences that students have throughout their journey.
This includes the University’s strong commitment to enhancing outreach and supports and U of T’s innovative continuum of student mental health supports that has eliminated wait times for counselling. Student financial support continues to be a key priority for the University, with $408 million in funding set aside for student support programs delivered through institutional program such as UTAPS, and locally within divisions.
The University is also prioritizing support for emerging scholars, disbursing over $427 million in graduate support last year (including a new $40,000 minimum funding package for doctoral students), and in 2026-27 will make new investments to Enrolment Report 2025-26 4 University of Toronto