York University

Overview

York University

York University (Université York in French) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1959 through the York University Act. It is the third-largest institution of higher education in the country. Some of its programs are recognized nationally and internationally, including film, law, business administration, and health sciences.

York University Key Statistics

The university comprises eleven faculties and schools, including the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, Lassonde School of Engineering, Faculty of Environmental Studies, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. These academic units offer a total of 120 undergraduate programs with over 170 degree options.

York University's student population is approximately 55,700 students, with 49,700 undergraduates and 6,000 postgraduates. It employs about 7,000 administrative staff and has produced more than 325,000 alumni.

It has three campuses, namely, the Keele Campus, the Glendon Campus, and the Markham Centre Campus, including several satellite facilities in downtown Toronto and an eco campus in Costa Rica. York also houses the country’s oldest and top film school.

The other York University key statistics include its various institutional affiliations, such as Universities Canada, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, International Association of Universities, and the Canadian Bureau for International Education.

Some of its notable alumni include Canadian astronaut Steven Glenwood MacLean, the former Canadian federal Minister of Finance James Michael Flaherty, and Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, the first black Member of Parliament in the House of Commons.

York University Research

The university is one of the leading research institutions in Canada, with 28 world-class research centres and numerous research achievements. Its top fields of research are physics, medicine, and computer science.

York University research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like the Social Science Research Network, The Astrophysical Journal, and Physics Letters B. Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as ICASSP: International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and CHI: Human Factors in Computing Systems.

The most cited York University research publication is Cohen et al.’s (1975) Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. This widely-used classic textbook has been cited 62,427 times.

The university’s second most cited publication is an earlier Cohen work, “A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales,” which was published in Educational and Psychological Measurement in 1960 and has received 43,767 citations.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is another, more recent Cohen opus, “A power primer,” which was featured in Psychological Bulletin and has received 42,522 citations.

The university has numerous research centers, institutes, laboratories, and relevant facilities. Some of its research centers are the York Centre for International and Security Studies, the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science, and the Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions. It also has research institutes such as the Institute for Research on Learning Technologies, the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability, and the York Institute for Social Research.

York also houses The Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian Canadian Studies, The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, and The Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security.