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Each of the university's sixteen faculties and schools governs its own admission process and academic programs. The Faculty of Arts and Science and the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering permit entry into bachelor degree programs. The other undergraduate schools, composed of the Faculty of Music, the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Physical Education, admit only from those already in undergraduate studies. A majority of undergraduate students are enrolled in the Faculty of Arts and Science, which houses 29 departments and more than 300 undergraduate programs.
Graduate programs in the arts and sciences are offered by the School of Graduate Studies. The Faculty of Medicine has eleven teaching and research hospitals, most notably the University Health Network, the Hospital for Sick Children and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The university's teachers college is the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, which is affiliated with its prestigious laboratory school, the University of Toronto Schools. There are eight other faculties and professional schools that confer graduate degrees: the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, the Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Forestry, the Faculty of Information Studies, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Social Work, the Rotman School of Management and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. Non-degree courses are provided separately through the School of Continuing Studies.  In addition to subsidiary departments and centres that are governed and funded by its faculties, the University of Toronto is the host of several independent institutes. The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council for studies in theoretical astronomy and related subjects. The Fields Institute is a centre for research and international collaboration in mathematical sciences. The university is also home to one of the worldwide locations of Newman Centres.
Library
The University of Toronto library system is Canada's largest academic library and is the third-largest in North America, after Harvard, and Yale. As of April, 2006, it held 10.5 million bookform items, 5.4 million microform items, and 1.9 million other items in its collections.[13]
The fourteen-storey Robarts Library is the main humanities and social sciences library, and the largest book repository in Canada. The architecture was inspired by the silhouette of a peacock. It also houses the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The Gerstein Science Information Centre is the flagship library supporting the sciences and health sciences.
The university has been working with the Internet Archive to digitize many of its collections for an online library. It is also a founding member of the Open Content Alliance, joined by Yahoo and the University of California. |
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