Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Metropolitan University is a public university in downtown Toronto, Canada, founded in 1948 as the Ryerson Institute of Technology for postwar technical and professional education. It became Ryerson University in 1993 and took its present name in 2022. The campus is a dense urban grid around Kerr Hall and Gould Street, beside Yonge-Dundas Square.

Faculties include engineering and architectural science, the Ted Rogers School of Management, communication and design, arts, science, community services, and law. The Yeates School of Graduate Studies administers advanced degrees. Graduate concentrations include media, urban studies, computer and electrical engineering, business, and nursing, with labs such as the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst and the School of Image Arts.

About 46,000 students enroll, including several thousand graduate students and a large international and commuter population from many countries. Full-time faculty number more than 900. Alumni include broadcaster George Stroumboulopoulos, writer-performer Nia Vardalos, and photographer Edward Burtynsky.

Study is built on professional and research master's degrees and a smaller doctoral slate, mixing coursework with a project or thesis. The year uses fall and winter semesters and an optional spring term. Assistantships and supervisor grants are common supports. Graduate students work in the downtown core, with placements in Toronto media, hospitals, banks, and technology firms nearby.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Toronto Metropolitan University lists 6 graduate programs across 5 subjects: 5 master's programs and 1 doctoral program, with the widest choice in communication, media & journalism, computer science and electrical & computer engineering.