___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Enrolment in Context the world), including in the top 20 for five broad subjects including Arts &Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Science & Medicine, Social Sciences & Management, and Natural Sciences. In the most recent Shanghai Subject Rankings, the University was ranked among the top 10 globally in five subject areas, including 3rd in Artificial Intelligence and 5th in Biomedical Engineering. The University of Toronto is the largest university in Canada and one of the largest public, research-intensive universities in North America.
It is also Canada’s premier research institution and is consistently ranked among world’s the top public universities. With over 100,000 students, U of T is twice the size of the next largest university in Ontario, enrolling roughly 1 in every 6 university students in the province, including 30% of all doctoral students. Across Canada, U of T has over 22,000 more undergraduate FTEs than our next largest Canadian peer and has among the highest proportion of graduate student enrolments in the U15.
Internationally, U of T is the largest university among its peers in the American Association of Universities (AAU), with more undergraduate students than all the Ivy league universities combined, and twice as many as large public US research intensive universities like Michigan, UCLA, and Washington. It is worth noting, too, that U of T has one of the lowest levels of revenue per student in the AAU, with operating revenues roughly half the size of the Ivies and one- third the size of the large public universities. U of T students not only benefit from the research expertise of our world-leading scholars, but they also contribute directly to well-being of the Ontario and GTA region.
For example, the University’s student-run dentistry clinic provides high quality dental care across fourteen clinics to 15,000 underserved community members each year with 300 dentistry students working under supervision of experienced clinical instructors, while Downtown Legal Services, a poverty law clinic operated by the Faculty of Law, offers free legal services to around 2,000 clients annually, with 140 law students working under expert supervision.
At the Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health, researchers and educators from across UofT work with community partners and Indigenous Peoples to address the complex factors that underlie disparities in health between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The University of Toronto complements its expansive and exceptional teaching mission with world class research. We consistently rank first among Canadian universities in all major international rankings and are frequently ranked among the top 10 public universities in the world. Our students get a world- class education across all programs as the University is renowned for the breadth of its academic excellence:
in the most recent QS world subject rankings U of T ranked in the global top 50 in 46 subject categories (more than any other university in Enrolment Report 2025-26 13 University of Toronto