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York University, known for its pioneering innovation in postsecondary education, is one of Canada's truly remarkable success stories. At York, faculty and students work together, focused on discovery, new ways of learning and ways of applying knowledge that will significantly enhance our students' and faculty's ability to build their own paths to success in their chosen fields.

Since the University was founded in 1959, York faculty members have worked hard to ensure that they share their research findings with their students and the broader community. Excellence in teaching, renowned academic scholarship and high quality, interdisciplinary research programs are three reasons why top scholars from across Canada and around the world come to study and work at York University.

York University is known for its interdisciplinary approach to research and scholarship. We are home to 21 research centres covering a wide spectrum of interests from Applied Sustainability and Work and Society, to Earth and Space Science and Refugee Studies.

York is a community of 7,000 faculty and staff, 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 180,000 alumni. The University graduates more than 7,000 students annually from the Faculties of Arts, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, Education, Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, Glendon College, Graduate Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, Science and Engineering and Schulich School of Business.

York University offers a world-class, modern academic experience in Toronto, Canada's most international city. York is at the centre of innovation, with a thriving community of faculty, students, staff and alumni who challenge the ordinary and deliver the unexpected. Working together, we redefine the possible.