York University

York University is a public research university founded in 1966 in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

It is made up of eleven faculties, including the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, the Faculty of Science, the Lassonde School of Engineering, the Schulich School of Business, Osgoode Hall Law School, Glendon College, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Health, the Faculty of Environmental Studies, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (Faculty of Fine Arts), and it has 28 research centres.

York University offers more than 120 study programmes at the bachelor's level.

York students can also take part in more than 100 international study programmes and continue their studies in other parts of the world.

It has approximately 60,000 students, nearly 12,000 of whom are international students admitted from 178 countries around the world.

It also has 7,000 faculty and staff and more than 325,000 alumni to date.

Why York University?

York University has consistently ranked within the top 400 among all universities in the world from 2012 to 2019.

York University is the second largest educational institution in the province of Ontario and the first university in Ontario in international collaborative research publications.

York University also ranks third in the fields of biological research and computational sciences.

Interestingly, the university's Faculty of Science and Engineering is the first research faculty in Canada to have taken part in the exploration of Mars, and it is also responsible for designing part of NASA's space research instruments.

Its Iranian Students' Association is one of the active social and political centres of the Iranian community living in Canada.

The university's library is housed in 5 buildings and contains about 3 million books from various sources.

Its students are also completely satisfied with their professors and their teaching methods.

Notably, 94% of the university's graduates find a job suited to their field of study within 2 years.