___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ UNDERGRADUATE FTEs Fall 2025 YoY GROWTH PLANNED VARIANCE ACTUAL GROWTH to PLAN TOTAL 71,581 1.6% 1.2% 0.4% Direct Entry 63,266 1.5% 0.9% 0.6% 1,146 2nd Entry 8,315 2.9% 3.3% 0.4% growth over 2024-25 StG 45,165 1.0% 0.4% 0.6% largely due to strong domestic intake & higher retention UTM 13,840 -1.3% 1.7% 3.0% UTSC 12,576 3.8% 7.1% 3.3% Enrolment Overview Undergraduate Enrolment Undergraduate students represent 78% of total enrolment and can pursue specialists, majors, minors, and certificates across more than 700 academic programs of study.
The University has seven academic divisions offering direct-entry undergraduate programs that students can enter directly from high school without prior post-secondary education. Approximately 9 out of every 10 undergraduates is enrolled in one of these direct-entry programs. for the uncertainty related to international intakes. Because of this year’s strong growth in domestic students, on top of strong growth in the previous years, the University is currently above its corridor midpoint (as measured in Weighted Grant Units [WGUs]).
There is no impact to the University’s overall operating grants, but internal adjustments are made to divisions’ operating grant budget allocations to remove grant funding for enrolments above planned levels. The bulk of the positive variance in domestic undergraduate enrolment was in direct-entry arts & sciences programs, particularly at UTM (+547) and UTSC (+769). The strong domestic increase on the UTM campus was concentrated in social sciences programs while UTSC continues to expand its undergraduate life sciences programs through SAMIH.
There was also roughly 117 FTEs of growth across the engineering and kinesiology programs, while domestic enrolment in architecture moved lower by 52 FTEs. Second-entry professional programs were moderately below plan (-0.5%). U of T also offers a wide range of second-entry programs, which require prior university experience, in disciplines such as medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, and law. Second-entry degree programs currently range in length from two to four years and often lead to a professional designation. In 2025-26, the University had 71,581 full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate students enrolled across its three campuses in downtown (St.
George), Scarborough (UTSC) and Mississauga (UTM). The vast majority of these students were enrolled in full- time studies, though it includes about 6,387 part-time students in primarily arts and sciences programs (who are counted as a fraction of an FTE based on their courseload). An important element in the University’s enrolment modelling and overall plan is new student intake, which is expressed in full- time student counts in the Fall semester rather than FTEs.
Larger-than-planned intakes can put pressure on academic resources as the larger cohort of students moves through their years of study; and vice-versa for missed intake, which results in a smaller cohort that will negatively impact divisional revenues over several years. Divisions plan for new intake in different ways – for example some factor in new students who transfer into upper years of the program, while others exclude these but consider students who return to their first year. These Total undergraduate enrolment increased by 1,146 FTEs (1.6%) this year, which was 310 more than planned.
All of this year’s net growth was concentrated among domestic students, which reflects the strength of the domestic pool of applicants, stronger- than-expected yield rates, as well as local choices by academic programs to admit more domestic students to account Enrolment Report 2025-26 9 University of Toronto