About Us

ArtsFacts 

• 3,100 students enrolled in our BA programs
• 2,800 full-time students from Ryerson’s four other Faculties taught by Arts faculty in 2010–11 
• 250 students enrolled in our MA and PhD programs
• 189 full-time faculty members with 50 new tenured/tenure-track faculty hired since 2006 
• 35 specialized research and teaching labs supporting departments of English, French-Spanish, Geography, Philosophy-Music, and Psychology
• 10 academic departments (6 Social Sciences and 4 Humanities)
• 9 floors of Jorgenson Hall (with a 10th opening in 2012) providing modern facilities for academic departments
• 8 full-time undergraduate BA programs with 3 new programs approved for launch in 2012–13; 1 part-time undergraduate BA program
• 8 MA and 4 PhD graduate programs
• 4 research chairs including 1 Canada Research Chair I
• 4 research centres
• 1 teaching chair supporting faculty teaching innovation
• 1 student experience centre supporting academic success, service learning, (inter)national exchanges, personal counseling, and student leadership

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