University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is really a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated upon the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was eventually founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the very first institution better learning inside the colony of Upper Canada. Originally controlled from the Church of England, the university assumed the present name in 1850 upon learning to be a secular institution. Like a collegiate university, it comprises twelve colleges that differ in character and history, each retaining substantial autonomy on financial and institutional affairs. 

Academically, the University of Toronto is noted for influential movements and curricula in literary criticism and communication theory, known collectively like the Toronto School. The university was the birthplace of insulin and stem cell research, and was the website of the very first practical electron microscope, the event of multi-touch technology, the identification of Cygnus X-1 like a black hole, and also the theory of NP completeness. By a big margin, it receives the foremost annual research funding of any Canadian university. It is just one of two participants in the Association of American Universities located outside the United States. 

The Varsity Blues will be the athletic teams representing the university in intercollegiate league matches, with particularly long and storied ties to gridiron football and ice hockey. The university's Hart House is definitely an early example from the North American student centre, simultaneously serving cultural, intellectual and recreational interests within its large Gothic-revival complex. 

The University of Toronto has educated two Governors General and 4 Prime Ministers of Canada, four foreign leaders, fourteen Justices from the Supreme Court, and also has been associated with ten Nobel laureates.