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Ryerson University is located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada and reflects the vibrant, diverse, and ever-changing atmosphere of Canada's largest city. Ryerson is named after Egerton Ryerson and was founded in 1948.

Ryerson University today has 19,000 full-time students and is Canada's leader for career-focused post-secondary education. Offering more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, Ryerson's growing research activities have a strong applied focus. The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education is the country’s largest provider of university-level adult education.

1 Academic Structure

Ryerson's faculties and divisions all play to Ryerson's historic strengths of theory combined with practise.

• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Business
• Faculty of Communication & Design
• Faculty of Community Services
• Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
• Graduate Studies
• G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education

2 Facts

• Canada's leader for career-focused university education
• Received full university status in 1993
• More than 40 degree programs in its Faculties of Arts, Business, Communication & Design, Community Services, and Engineering and Applied Science
• 11 undergraduate degree programs are unique among Canadian universities: Arts and Contemporary Studies, Disability Studies, Early Childhood Education, Fashion, Graphic Communications Management, Health Services Management, Image Arts, International Economics, Occupational and Public Health (Occupational Health and Safety option), Radio and Television, and Retail Management
• 10 graduate programs, four of which lead to a PhD, offered through the School of Graduate Studies; two master's programs unique in Canada: Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, in partnership with George Eastman House in Rochester, New York; and Immigration and Settlement Studies
• Annual funded research has increased more than four times the amount over a decade ago, from $2.4 million to $10 million
• Home to 19,000 full-time undergraduate students, 600 graduate students, and more than 61,000 Continuing Education enrolments
• International student enrolment of more than 901, representing 90 countries
• The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Canada's leading provider of university-based adult education, offers more than 1,000 courses, workshops, and seminars; 185 distance education courses; over 65 career-related certificate programs, and 10 advanced training designations
• Largest undergraduate Faculty of Business in Canada
• Undergoing the largest expansion in 30 years, with more than $210 million in construction
• 106,000 alumni

3 Noted Alumni

• Eric McCormack - Emmy-award winner, star of Will & Grace
• Nia Vardalos - star and writer of My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• Jessica HolmesJessica Holmes is a comedian and actress well known for her work with the Royal Canadian Air Farce which she joined in 2003. She was born on August 29, 1973 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She attended Canterbury High School followed by Ryerson University. - comedian-actress on Royal Canadian Air FarceRoyal Canadian Air Farce is a Canadian radio and television show, broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The show, a weekly topical sketch comedy series, focuses on political and cultural satire, and is one of the most popular shows on Canadi
• Tonya Lee WilliamsTonya Lee Williams (born Tonya Maxine Williams on July 12, 1967 in London, England) is an African Canadian actress, best known for her role as Dr. Olivia Barber Hastings Winters on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless''. She first debuted on - Star of The Young and the RestlessThe Young and the Restless (commonly abbreviated to Y&R is an American soap opera that takes place in Genoa City, Wisconsin. It first debuted on the CBS television network on March 26, 1973, replacing Where the Heart Is and Love is a Many Splendored Thing
• Isadore Sharp - Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts founder
• Doug Walker - AliasAlias has several meanings A person with an alias has a pseudonym It can mean aliasing in signal processing and computer graphics Alias is a United States television series Alias is also an American comic book It can refer to the former company known as A President and OscarOscar can refer to A nickname for an Academy Award. A common name for a species of Astronotus ocellatus, a aquarium fish. The letter O in the NATO phonetic alphabet Oscar the Grouch is the name of a muppet on Sesame Street. Oscar I king of Sweden and Norw winner for MayaThe word Maya or maya can refer to: the Maya a native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America the modern Maya people the pre-Columbian Maya civilization the Maya language Maya a concept in Hindu/ Vedic philosophy a state of misperc 3D software
• Rick Brace - president of CTV Inc
• Robert Gierkink - Air Miles Canada founder
• Lida Baday - award winning fashion designer
• George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg - international award-winning designers
• David James Elliott - star of JAG
• Valerie Pringle - nationally broadcaster of current affairs and travel
• Klaus Woerner - President and CEO of ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. and 1997 Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year