___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the following number of graduates on an annual basis: 30 physicians (MD), 40 physical therapists (MScPT), and 300 from undergraduate life science programs – in addition to 45 new postgraduate medical resident spaces. SAMIH will also graduate 30 Nurse Practitioners (MN) and 45 physician assistants using existing spaces. This funded expansion is well underway and ramps up over the next several years, accounting for around 1,400 FTEs by the end of the long- range plan.
The academy will be housed in the new Myron and Berna Garron Health Sciences Complex, which is slated to open for Fall 2026. Additional Health Sciences Spaces . In Summer 2023, the Province announced plans to accelerate and expand several health science program expansions. The net impact on the University is new physician assistant and additional MD and medical resident spaces over the course of the planning period. The government has also funded a single cohort expansion for 20 additional Radiation Sciences spaces for Fall 2025. Nursing Expansion Spaces .
In response to growing demand and anticipated supply shortages in the health sector, the Province has provided additional operating grant funding outside the corridor for nursing expansion spaces to colleges and universities. Under this expansion, the University has added 55 additional intake spaces structurally over the course of the planning period (relative to Fall 2020) in our compressed two-year professional Bachelor of Science Nursing program. Further, the government has committed to a one-time funding of 30 more BScN spaces (making 85 spaces total) for the cohort beginning in Fall 2026.
At the graduate level, the Province has provided additional funding for 20 additional Master of Nursing students per year over the planning period. The division also received funding for the part time Post Master s Nurse Practitioner Diploma program beginning in 2025 26, supporting three intake cohorts of 15 students per year over three years. Master of Teaching Spaces: The government has funded a single cohort of expansion of 60 more spaces for the Master of Teaching/Master of Child Studies for Fall 2025. Micro-credentials :
In 2020-21, as part of a broader virtual learning strategy, the Province created a new campaign around developing and promoting micro-credential programs, including expanding OSAP eligibility for students in these short-duration programs (less than 12 weeks). Under this initiative, the University has over 200 programs approved for OSAP eligibility by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security. In 2024, the Federal Government introduced a new cap on international student permits aimed at reducing the number of new permits issued nationally.
To administer this cap, the Federal Government allocates a restricted number of Provincial Attestation Letters (PALs) to each province, which allocates them internally to their post-secondary institutions. Colleges and universities issue a PAL to an international applicant who has accepted an offer of admission, though this does not guarantee that they will be approved for a study permit or ultimately register at the institution. In 2025, the Federal government extended the PAL requirement to graduate students, but for 2026 has returned to exempting them, though PALs continue to be required for international high school students already in Canada.
In the original 2024 policy, the Federal Government aimed to reduce the number of study permits issued by 35%, reducing it by another 10% in 2025; for 2026 they plan to reduce numbers by an additional 7%. This has had a dramatic and chilling effect on international demand for Canadian post-secondary education, although the University of Toronto’s exceptional global brand has protected it against the kind of precipitous enrolment drops at other universities and especially colleges. Enrolment Report 2025-26 7 University of Toronto