Career Development and Employment Centre

About Ryerson

Today's Ryerson

These are exciting times at Ryerson University with a growing number of students on campus each year, additional graduate studies programs, and an increasingly vibrant campus, Ryerson produces students who are ready to hit the ground running upon graduation.

Ryerson offers both professionally targeted programs - an area in which we lead among Canadian universities - and contemporary arts and science degrees. Ryerson exposes students to a broad spectrum of career focused university learning that is directly linked to developing and enhancing career skills, and producing employment ready graduates.

Ryerson is an institution driven to innovate and set the bar on standards of excellence in multi disciplinary learning in which theory is partnered with real-world application and practice recognized by business, government, and community leaders. The resulting synergy produces a stimulating academic environment where students' can achieve their full potential and practical experience.

Our Alumni & Students

With approximately 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students - including 1,600 master's and PhD students (as of fall 2007) - and over 50,000 Continuing Education students, the student population at Ryerson is constantly growing.

But Ryerson University's major uniqueness comes not from our downtown location and career-ready programming, but from our multicultural and diverse campus.

Our campus and students are a reflection of the incredible cosmopolitan mix found in Toronto. Representing various languages, ethnicities, traditions, religions, orientations, and customs found in our community, Ryerson students are the "Leaders of Tomorrow" as named by MacLeans Magazine.

Our students graduate with confidence gained from their work-study opportunities - through co-ops, exchanges, internships, placements, student-run productions, sector related projects, and fieldwork. These all provide valuable, career ready experiences - putting their studies to work in the real world before they graduate.

To date, there are over 126,000 wonderful alumni, including:

• Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts founder Isadore Sharp;
• Creator of successful television comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie, Zarqa Nawaz;
• World-renowned fashion designers Lida Baday and Jeremy Laing;
• Star of Will & Grace, Eric McCormack.
• President & CEO of Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd., John Galt

Our Programs

There are over 40 undergraduate degree programs and over 30 graduate degree programs within five faculties. Each provides a real-world, relevant curriculum that lets students practise and learn, so they are prepared and ready to work upon graduation.

12 of our undergraduate degree programs are unique among Canadian universities. They include:

1. Arts & Contemporary Studies
2. Disability Studies
3. Early Childhood Education
4. Fashion (English-Speaking)
5. Graphic Communications Management
6. Health Information Management (degree-completion)
7. Health Services Management
8. Image Arts
9. International Economics & Finance
10. Occupational & Public Health (Occupational Health & Saftey option)
11. Radio & Television
12. Retail Management

Ryerson also features over 40 certificate programs through the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education. Our five faculties, and their nearly 80 undergraduate and graduate programs, include:

1. Faculty of Arts
2. Ted Rogers School of Management
3. Faculty of Communication & Design
4. Faculty of Community Services
5. Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
6. Faculty of Science
7. The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education

Our Location

Ryerson University is a unique environment that takes full advantage of its location in the downtown core of Toronto - just off Yonge & Dundas.

Major industry centres - including those for health, finance, business, entertainment, fashion, hospitality, retail and design - are steps away. This access translates into amazing partnerships, and work-study and networking opportunities for our students, such as:

• Fashion/Design students are steps away from Spadina Avenue, the fashion and design capital of the country.
• Commerce/Management students study in a brand new facility located on the street that defines Canadian business, Bay Street.
• Media/Broadcasting students can walk to several major-market radio and television stations, as well as the offices of some of the highest circulated newspapers and magazines in Canada.
• Politics/Criminal Justice students are 10 minutes away from City Hall, Queen's Park and the downtown courthouses.
• Nursing/Health Science students can walk to several major health centres.
• Theatre students learn their craft in the heart of Toronto's theatre district.
• Science/Engineering students network with Canada's leaders in research and development.

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