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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACT SHEET MISSISSAUGA 2019-2020 U of T Mississauga was established in 1967, with one temporary academic building, 155 students, 28 faculty and 40 staff members. The campus has grown to become the second-largest division of U of T (Canada’s largest university). UTM now includes 14,544 undergraduate students, 904 graduate students, over 3,700 full- and part-time employees (including 1,200 permanent faculty and staff) as well as over 60,000 alumni. • The campus is situated on 225 acres of Management of Innovation, a Master of Science protected greenbelt along the Credit River, in Sustainability Management and a Master of 33 kilometres west of the university’s St. George Forensic Accounting. campus in Toronto. • U of T Mississauga and Sheridan College Institute • Award-winning facilities include the of Technology and Advanced Learning offer joint Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex, programs in theatre and drama studies; art and the Instructional Centre, the Hazel McCallion art history; and communication, culture and Academic Learning Centre, the Recreation, information technology. Athletics and Wellness Centre, Deerfeld Hall and the Communication, Culture and • UTM’ s newest building, Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Technology building. opened in 2018 and will be dedicated in 2019 with an Anishinaabemowin name meaning • U of T Mississauga has 17 academic units “Gathering of Minds.” The 210,000-square-foot, (15 departments and two institutions), 155 six-storey building houses classrooms, programs and 95 areas of study, and includes: as well as the Departments of English and Drama, the Institute for Management & Innovation; Philosophy, Historical Studies, Language Studies, the Institute of Communication, Culture, Political Science and Sociology. Information and Technology; the Centre for South Asian Civilizations; and the Centre for Urban • Famous U of T Mississauga alumni include Environments. The Mississauga Academy of astronaut Dr. Roberta Bondar, flmmaker Richie Medicine is located on campus in the Terrence Mehta, Canadian media executive Kirstine Stewart, Donnelly Health Sciences Complex. actor Zaib Shaikh, writer/poet Dionne Brand and poet Wali Shah. • Along with traditional undergraduate, master’s and doctoral programs, U of T Mississauga • U of T Mississauga is involved in numerous offers several highly sought-after degree options, community and civic initiatives, including such as a Bachelor of Business Administration, the Mississauga Board of Trade, Advantage a Master of Biomedical Communications, a Mississauga, the Healthy City Stewardship Centre, Master of Biotechnology, a Master of Management the Research Innovation and Commercialization and Professional Accounting, a Master of Centre and the United Way of Peel Region. We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land. .