Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met), formerly known as Ryerson University, is a public research university located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, in the Garden District at the heart of Canada's largest city.多伦多都会大学（简称 TMU 或 Toronto Met）原名利尔森大学，是一所公立研究型大学，位于加拿大最大城市多伦多市中心的加登区。

Founded in 1948 as the Ryerson Institute of Technology and named after the educator Egerton Ryerson, it was renamed Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022 in response to concerns about his role in the Canadian Indian residential school system.该校1948年以「利尔森理工学院」之名创办，校名源自教育家埃格顿·利尔森；因各方对其在加拿大印第安寄宿学校制度中所起作用的关切，2022年更名为多伦多都会大学。

It comprises nine academic divisions and enrols more than 48,000 students, and it ranked 669th in the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校设九个学术部门，在读学生逾4.8万名，在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列第669名。

History

• During the Second World War, Howard Hillen Kerr, director of the Training and Re-Establishment Institute, and other members of the Toronto Board of Education saw a need for specialised institutes to train returning veterans for specific jobs.第二次世界大战期间，培训与复员研究所主任霍华德·希伦·克尔及多伦多教育委员会其他成员，看到有需要设立专门机构，为复员军人提供针对具体职业的培训。

• After a trip to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943, Kerr envisioned a similar institute in Canada to span the gap between secondary education and the universities.1943年访问麻省理工学院之后，克尔设想在加拿大创办一所类似的机构，以填补中等教育与大学之间的空白。

• Kerr's effort led to the Vocational Education Act and the creation of vocational schools and technological institutes in Ontario, but their establishment was delayed by the Cold War.克尔的努力促成了《职业教育法》以及在安大略省创办职业学校与技术学院，但冷战使这些机构的设立被推迟。

• With the prospect of another war greatly diminished by 1948, the decision was made to open the Ryerson Institute of Technology, with class calendars hastily issued in August 1948.到1948年再度开战的前景已大为减弱，于是决定开办利尔森理工学院，课程日历在1948年8月仓促印发。

• The school was named after Egerton Ryerson, who had established the Toronto Normal School in 1847 on the future site of the Ryerson Institute of Technology.该校以埃格顿·利尔森命名，他曾在1847年于利尔森理工学院后来的校址上创办多伦多师范学校。

• Ryerson had helped develop education in Canada West as its chief superintendent, creating a model for publicly funding the training of teachers and working on the Education Act of 1846.利尔森曾任加拿大西部的教育总监，推动当地教育发展，创立公共资助教师培养的模式，并参与制定1846年《教育法》。

• The Ryerson Institute of Technology was officially opened on 16 September 1948 with approximately 250 students enrolled, most of them in continuing education part-time night school programmes.利尔森理工学院于1948年9月16日正式开办，注册学生约250名，其中多数就读继续教育的兼读夜校课程。

• Kerr served as the institution's first principal until 1966, when he became head of the Council of Regents for Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology.克尔担任该校首任校长直至1966年，随后出任应用艺术与技术学院评议委员会主席。

• Later the grounds were used by the Royal Canadian Air Force as a training centre during the Second World War, and temporary barracks were built that were later razed for the campus.后来，这片场地在第二次世界大战期间被加拿大皇家空军用作训练中心，所建的临时营房日后被拆除以兴建校园。

• Because the rapid growth of the student population made housing the institute in the Toronto Normal School impossible, work began in 1958 on the first building designed specifically for it, Kerr Hall.由于学生人数迅速增长，学院已无法继续安置在多伦多师范学校内，1958年遂动工兴建第一座专为其设计的大楼——克尔楼。

• Kerr Hall was completed in 1963, and several buildings had to be razed, including wartime barracks and the Toronto Normal School, though its portico facade was kept.克尔楼于1963年落成；工程施工拆除了若干建筑，包括战时营房与多伦多师范学校，但后者的门廊立面得以保留。

• The Ryerson Polytechnical Institute Act was passed by the provincial Parliament in 1963, and the institution was reorganized with its own board of governors and renamed Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1964.1963年省议会通过《利尔森理工学院法》，该校于1964年完成重组，设立自己的董事会并更名为利尔森理工学院。

• The nursing programmes of three hospitals were transferred to the institution, the first such programmes to be offered at a post-secondary institution in Canada.三所医院的护理课程被移交给该校，成为加拿大高等教育机构中最早开设的此类课程。

• In 1971 the institute received limited degree-granting authority, awarding the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Bachelor of Technology, and in 1977 it added the Bachelor of Business Administration.1971年该校获得有限学位授予权，可授予应用文学士与技术学士学位；1977年又增设工商管理学士学位。

• In 1993 the institute became a full polytechnic university and was renamed Ryerson Polytechnic University, expanding its mandate to include scholarly research.1993年该校成为完全意义上的理工类大学，更名为利尔森理工大学，并将学术研究纳入其使命。

• The School of Graduate Studies was formally established in 1997, and in June 2002 the institution shortened its name to Ryerson University to reflect its broader scope.研究生院于1997年正式成立；2002年6月，该校将校名简化为利尔森大学，以反映其更广的办学范围。

• After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its report in May 2015, the university acted on several recommendations it made to post-secondary institutions.加拿大真相与和解委员会于2015年5月发布报告后，该校就其中面向高等教育的多项建议采取了行动。

• Because of Egerton Ryerson's association with the establishment of the Canadian Indian residential school system, the institution faced calls in 2017 to reconsider its namesake, and a consultation process was launched in 2018.由于埃格顿·利尔森与加拿大印第安寄宿学校制度的建立有关联，该校在2017年面临重新审视校名的呼声，并于2018年启动协商程序。

• Faculty member Denise O'Neil Green led that consultation and was later appointed the university's first vice-president for equity and community inclusion, the first such post in a Canadian post-secondary institution.该校教师丹妮丝·奥尼尔·格林主导此次协商，随后被任命为该校首任公平与社区包容副校长，这是加拿大高校中首个此类副校长职位。

• Pressure to rename the university grew after the finding of possible unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021, and staff and students of the Yellowhead Institute announced they would stop using the Ryerson name.2021年5月坎卢普斯印第安寄宿学校发现可能的无标记墓地后，要求更名的压力上升；该校黄头研究所的教职员与学生宣布不再使用利尔森之名。

• In June 2021 the statue of Egerton Ryerson was toppled by activists, and the university stated it would not be restored or replaced.2021年6月，埃格顿·利尔森的雕像被抗议者推倒，校方声明不会将其修复或替换。

• In August 2021 the university announced it would accept the 22 recommendations of an internal task force, including renaming the institution, and on 26 April 2022 it announced the new name Toronto Metropolitan University.2021年8月，该校宣布接受内部专责小组的22项建议，其中包括为学校更名；2022年4月26日公布新校名多伦多都会大学。

• The name change was formalized in December 2022 through an amendment to the institution's governing legislation, and the School of Medicine opened in 2025 with its first cohort based in Brampton.该次更名于2022年12月通过修订学校章程法正式确立；2025年该校医学院开办，首届学生设于布兰普顿校区。

Academics

• The university operates on a three-term system, with fall, winter and spring or summer terms, and its programmes are administered by nine academic divisions.该校采用三学期制，分秋季、冬季与春夏学期，其课程由九个学术部门管理。

• Its divisions include the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Community Services, the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, the Faculty of Science and The Creative School.其学术部门包括文学院、社区服务学院、工程与建筑科学学院、理学院，以及创意学院。

• Further divisions are the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, the Ted Rogers School of Management, the School of Medicine and the Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.其他部门还有林肯·亚历山大法学院、泰德·罗杰斯管理学院、医学院，以及耶茨研究生与博士后研究学院。

• The Faculty of Arts is made up of ten humanities and social science departments, while The Creative School is organised into nine schools focused on media, design and creative industries.文学院由十个人文与社会科学系组成，而创意学院则下设九个学院，聚焦传媒、设计与创意产业。

• The Ted Rogers School of Management serves as the university's business school and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.泰德·罗杰斯管理学院是该校的商学院，并获国际商学院协会（AACSB）认证。

• Continuing education is managed by the Chang School of Continuing Education, which offered over 400 courses as of February 2021, including many degree-credit courses.继续教育由张氏继续教育学院管理，截至2021年2月开设逾400门课程，其中包括许多可计学分的课程。

• The university employs about 909 full-time faculty members, and in 2019-20 it enrolled 28,800 full-time undergraduate and 2,600 full-time graduate students.该校约有909名全职教师；2019-20学年在读的全日制本科生为28800名、全日制研究生为2600名。

• As of the 2025-26 academic year it had approximately 47,118 undergraduate and 2,950 graduate students, and as of 2026 more than 256,000 alumni worldwide.至2025-26学年，该校约有47118名本科生与2950名研究生；截至2026年，其全球校友超过25.6万名。

• In 2018 the university conferred 7,199 bachelor's degrees, 1,084 master's degrees and 75 doctoral degrees, with more than a quarter of the bachelor's degrees in business and commerce.2018年该校授予7199个学士学位、1084个硕士学位与75个博士学位，其中逾四分之一的学士学位属商学与商务专业。

• In 2023 the university reported a student-faculty ratio of 33 to 1, and in 2017 it had the highest reported student-faculty ratio in Ontario.2023年该校报告的师生比为33比1；2017年其师生比在安大略省高校中为最高。

• Undergraduate admission requires secondary school records and, for applicants whose first language is not English, proof of language proficiency, since marking schemes differ across jurisdictions.本科录取要求提交中学成绩；由于各地评分体系不同，母语非英语的申请者还须提供语言能力证明。

• The mean secondary school average for newly admitted Ontario students in 2018-19 was 85.4 per cent, and the retention rate for first-year full-time students was 88 per cent.2018-19学年新录取的安大略省学生的中学平均分约为85.4%；全日制一年级学生的保留率为88%。

• The university holds membership in national and international post-secondary organisations such as Universities Canada and the International Association of Universities.该校是加拿大大学协会与国际大学协会等国内外高等教育组织的成员。

• As of February 2021 there were 37 research centres and institutes operated by the university and its faculties, and in 2018-19 it published 1,369 academic publications.截至2021年2月，该校及其各学院运作37个研究中心与研究所；2018-19学年发表1369项学术出版物。

• During 2018-19 the university's allocation of Canada Research Chairs was 23, and it received 17.1 million dollars from the Tri-Council for research support.2018-19年度，该校获配23个加拿大研究讲席，并从三大联邦科研资助机构获得1710万美元的研究资助。

• The university operates Canada's largest network of university-based business incubators, the Zone Learning network, made up of eleven incubators focused on different sectors.该校运营加拿大最大的高校创业孵化网络「区域学习网络」，由十一个聚焦不同行业的孵化器组成。

• The DMZ, founded in 2010, has assisted over 750 businesses, helped raise over 1.95 billion dollars in funding, and fostered over 4,800 jobs, and UBI Global named it the world's best university incubator in 2018.2010年成立的DMZ已协助逾750家企业，帮助募集逾19.5亿美元资金，并促成逾4800个就业岗位；2018年被UBI Global评为全球最佳高校孵化器。

• The university jointly administers several academic programmes with Sheridan College and York University, and retains a focus on experiential learning across its undergraduate programmes.该校与谢里丹学院及约克大学联合开设若干学术项目，并在本科课程中持续强调体验式学习。

Campus

• The university's central campus lies within the Garden District of downtown Toronto, bounded by Gerrard Street, Jarvis Street, Dundas Street East and Yonge Street.该校中心校区位于多伦多市中心的加登区，以杰拉德街、贾维斯街、登打士东街与央街为界。

• The campus is interwoven with the downtown core, with few entrance markers, and most of it is designated as a mixed-use institutional area.校园与市中心核心区相互融合，入口标识很少，其大部分区域被划为混合用途的机构用地。

• Kerr Hall serves as the campus heart, while Gould Street to its south is the university's main east-west corridor, closed to vehicle traffic and known as Toronto Metropolitan University Square.克尔楼是校园的核心，其南侧的固尔德街是该校主要的东西向通道，已禁止机动车通行，被称为多伦多都会大学广场。

• Victoria Street south of Gerrard Street has been a pedestrian-only zone since 1978, and Gould Street was permanently closed to car traffic in February 2012.杰拉德街以南的维多利亚街自1978年起即为行人专用区；固尔德街于2012年2月永久禁止机动车通行。

• The university operates more than 40 buildings, which accounted for over 370,000 square metres of gross floor area as of 2019, nearly double the figure of 2000.该校运营40多座建筑，截至2019年总建筑面积超过37万平方米，较2000年几乎翻倍。

• The university library is housed in an eleven-storey Brutalist-style structure completed in 1974, and as of 2012 held over 522,000 books and more than 836,000 microform units.校图书馆设于1974年落成的十一层粗野主义风格建筑内，截至2012年藏书逾52.2万册，缩微品逾83.6万件。

• The Student Learning Centre, completed in 2015 next to the library, was designed by the architectural firm Snøhetta and provides 14,200 square metres of additional study space.2015年在图书馆旁落成的学生学习中心由斯诺赫塔建筑事务所设计，提供1.42万平方米的额外研习空间。

• The Image Centre, a 4,500 square metre complex completed in 2012, serves as a photography museum and holds about 375,000 objects, including the Black Star collection of 292,000 photographs.「图像中心」是2012年落成、占地4500平方米的建筑群，作为摄影博物馆，藏品约37.5万件，其中包括含29.2万张照片的「黑星」收藏。

• The university operates three student residences with about 1,144 beds, namely the Daphne Cockwell Complex, the International Living and Learning Centre and Pitman Hall.该校运营三处学生宿舍，共约1144个床位，即达芙妮·考克韦尔综合楼、国际学习与生活中心以及皮特曼楼。

• Devonian Square features a reflecting pool and large Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks approximately two billion years old, and a green roof and urban farm were built atop the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre in 2003.泥盆纪广场设有倒影池，以及约二十亿年前的元古代火成岩与变质岩；2003年，乔治·瓦里工程与计算中心屋顶建起绿色屋顶与都市农场。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Toronto Metropolitan University is placed 669th in the world, the position given by the publisher's official table.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，多伦多都会大学位列世界第669名，此为发布方官方榜单所给名次。^[1]

• In the 2026 QS World University Rankings the university placed 720th out of 8,467 institutions, improving from the 801-850 band the previous year and making it Canada's biggest riser.在2026年QS世界大学排名中，该校在8467所院校中位列第720名，较上一年的801-850档大幅提升，成为加拿大进步最快的大学。

• Times Higher Education places the university in the 701-800 band of its 2027 World University Rankings, after a 601-800 band in its 2026 edition.泰晤士高等教育将其列入2027年世界大学排名701-800档，此前其2026年版位于601-800档。

• The U.S. News & World Report 2026-2027 Best Global Universities ranking places the university 1,049th in the world among the institutions it assesses.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027年全球最佳大学排名将该校列为世界第1049名，评估对象为其收录的院校。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking, the university is placed in the 801-900 band and ranks among the top 25 in Canada.在软科发布的2026年世界大学学术排名中，该校位列801-900档，并跻身加拿大前25名。

• In Maclean's 2026 Canadian university rankings the university placed first in the country for student services.在《麦克林》2026年加拿大大学排名中，该校的学生服务位列全国第一。

• In Maclean's 2023 comprehensive university category the university ranked eighth, tied with the University of New Brunswick, and 19th in the reputational survey.在《麦克林》2023年综合类大学排名中，该校位列第八，与新不伦瑞克大学并列；在声誉调查中位列第十九。

• In the Times Higher Education global employability ranking the university placed 192nd in the world and tenth in Canada, reflecting its graduates' employment prospects.在泰晤士高等教育全球就业力排名中，该校位列世界第192名、加拿大第十名，反映其毕业生的就业前景。

• In machine-readable bibliographic data the university is credited with about 53,277 scholarly works and some 1,464,274 citations, a substantial research record.在机器可读的文献计量数据中，该校约有53277项学术成果与约1464274次被引，研究记录相当可观。

• As of February 2021 the university operated 37 research centres and institutes, and in Research Infosource's 2020 ranking it placed 23rd among 50 Canadian research universities.截至2021年2月，该校运作37个研究中心与研究所；在2020年Research Infosource排名中，其于50所加拿大研究型大学中位列第23。

Student life

• In 2019-20 the university's student body included 44,400 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and 2,950 full-time and part-time graduate students, over 93 per cent of them Canadian.2019-20学年，该校共有44400名全日制与兼读制本科生、2950名全日制与兼读制研究生，其中逾93%为加拿大人。

• Nearly 80 per cent of undergraduate students came from the Greater Toronto Area, and in 2015 about 54 per cent of students travelled to campus by local transit.近80%的本科生来自大多伦多地区；2015年约有54%的学生搭乘本地公交到校。

• The Toronto Metropolitan Students' Union represents full-time undergraduates, the Toronto Metropolitan Graduate Students' Union represents graduate students, and all are members of the Canadian Federation of Students.多伦多都会大学学生会代表全日制本科生，研究生会代表研究生，二者均为加拿大学生联合会成员。

• Faculty-level student societies plan their faculties' frosh weeks, formals and professional events, and each faculty has an academic student society recognised by the Board of Governors.院级学生社团筹办各院的新生周、正式晚宴与职业活动，每个学院都设有经董事会认可的学生学术社团。

• Several student-run media outlets operate at the university, including the student newspaper The Eyeopener, which has been published since 1967 and is run by student-owned Rye Eye Publishing.该校有多家学生自办媒体，包括自1967年发行至今的学生报《开眼者》，由学生所有的 Rye Eye Publishing 经营。

• CJRU, also known as Met Radio, has served as a non-profit campus and community radio station since 2016, succeeding earlier university-licensed public radio stations.CJRU（又称 Met Radio）自2016年起作为非营利性的校园与社区电台运营，接替该校此前运营的公共电台。

• The university's athletics department operates varsity teams playing as TMU Bold in the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports, in sports such as basketball, ice hockey and volleyball.该校体育部门的校队在 U Sports 的安大略大学体育联盟中以「TMU Bold」参赛，项目包括篮球、冰球与排球等。

• The university fielded its first sports teams in 1948, and its athletics programme adopted a ram mascot from 1961, changing to a falcon in 2022 with the move from the Ryerson Rams to TMU Bold.该校于1948年组建首批校队；其体育项目自1961年起以公羊为吉祥物，2022年随校队由「利尔森公羊」更名为 TMU Bold 而改为猎鹰。

• Student life is closely tied to downtown Toronto, with the compact campus set among the city's commercial, cultural and entertainment districts and connected by the TMU subway station on Line 1.学生生活与多伦多市中心紧密相连，紧凑的校园坐落于城市的商业、文化与娱乐区之间，并由地铁一号线的 TMU 站相连。

Notable people

• Howard Hillen Kerr was the founding principal of the Ryerson Institute of Technology, serving from 1948 to 1966 and shaping its vocational mission.霍华德·希伦·克尔是利尔森理工学院的首任校长，自1948年至1966年在任，塑造了该校的职业办学使命。

• Egerton Ryerson, the educator whose name the institution long bore, had established the Toronto Normal School in 1847 on the site later occupied by the institute.该校长期沿用的校名取自教育家埃格顿·利尔森，他于1847年在后来成为该校校址的地方创办多伦多师范学校。

• Mohamed Lachemi has served as president and vice-chancellor since September 2016, and Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano was announced in April 2026 as the university's 10th president from January 2027.穆罕默德·拉赫米自2016年9月起任校长兼校监；2026年4月宣布罗伯塔·扬纳奇托-普罗文扎诺将于2027年1月起出任该校第十任校长。

• Donette Chin-Loy Chang was appointed chancellor of the university in October 2024, serving as its titular head and conferring its degrees.多内特·钦-洛伊·张于2024年10月获任该校校监，作为名义上的首长并授予学位。

• Isadore Sharp, founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, is among the university's best-known alumni in business.四季酒店集团创始人兼董事长伊萨多·夏普是该校最知名的商界校友之一。

• Patrick Dovigi, founder and chief executive of GFL Environmental, and Tony Gagliano, chairman of St. Joseph Communications, are also graduates of the university.GFL Environmental 创始人兼首席执行官帕特里克·多维吉，以及圣约瑟夫传播公司董事长托尼·加利亚诺，也是该校毕业生。

• John Galt, president of Husky Injection Molding Systems, and Klaus Woerner, founder of ATS Automation Tooling Systems, studied at the university.赫斯基注塑系统公司总裁约翰·高尔特与 ATS 自动化装配系统公司创始人克劳斯·韦尔纳均曾在该校就读。

• Among its alumni in the arts are Nina Dobrev and Eric McCormack, actors, and Nia Vardalos, an actress and screenwriter, along with Mena Massoud.其艺术界校友包括演员妮娜·杜波夫与埃里克·麦科马克，身兼演员与编剧的妮娅·瓦达拉斯，以及梅纳·马苏德。

• Louise Penny and Robert J. Sawyer, both novelists, are alumni, as are the journalists Michelle Shephard and Robyn Doolittle and the broadcaster Brian Stewart.小说家路易丝·佩妮与罗伯特·J·索耶是该校校友；记者米歇尔·谢泼德与罗宾·杜利特尔以及广播人布赖恩·斯图尔特亦然。

• Jack Layton, former leader of the official opposition in Canada and of the New Democratic Party, taught at the university, as did David Crombie, a former Secretary of State.加拿大前官方反对党领袖、新民主党领袖杰克·莱顿曾在该校任教，前国务部长戴维·克龙比亦然。

• Stuart McLean, a Canadian radio broadcaster, humourist and author, was a professor of journalism at the university from 1984 until 2004.加拿大广播人、幽默作家兼作家斯图尔特·麦克莱恩自1984年至2004年在该校任新闻学教授。

• G. Raymond Chang, chairman of CI Financial, served as chancellor of the university from 2006 to 2012, and the Chang School of Continuing Education is named in his honour.CI Financial 董事长张氏曾于2006至2012年任该校校监，张氏继续教育学院即以他命名。