Ryerson University

Ryerson University is located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ryerson is named after Egerton Ryerson and was founded in 1948.

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Toronto - Ontario - Canada - Egerton Ryerson - 1948

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Ryerson University today has 20,000 full-time students. Offering more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, Ryerson's growing research activities have a strong applied focus. The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education is the country's largest provider of university-level adult education.

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The core of Ryerson's main campus, St. James Square, goes back to The Normal School, founded there by Ryerson in 1852; it became the province's foremost teacher's academy. It also housed the Department of Education and The Museum of Natural History and Fine Arts, which became the Royal Ontario Museum. An agricultural laboratory on the site led to the later founding of the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Guelph. St. James Square went through various other educational uses before housing a namesake of its original founder.

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Normal School - 1852 - Royal Ontario Museum - University of Guelph

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The Ryerson Institute of Technology was founded in 1948; the name was changed in 1964 to Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. It became a degree-granting institution in 1971, and in 1993 Ryerson received full accreditation and changed its name to Ryerson Polytechnic University. In June 2001, the school renamed itself again, assuming its present identity as Ryerson University. In the fall of 2006, the new business school will open and will merge the 4 departments of the School of Business Management and offer, pending final approval, MBA programs as well.

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1948 - 1964 - 1971 - 1993 - 2001

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The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Ryerson Rams.

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Canadian Interuniversity Sport - Ryerson Rams

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