Education in Toronto

Additionally, two post-secondary institutions based elsewhere in Ontario have also established satellite campuses in the city.

French language schools in Toronto are constitutionally protected under Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

[4] The first conference for publicly funded alternative schools in the Greater Toronto Area happened in November 2012.

Established in 1846 as an alternative to provincial schools, it severed ties with Knox College in 1849, and was closed shortly afterwards in 1852.

[9] William Lyon Mackenzie's son, future Chief Justice Thomas Moss as well as first African Canadian doctor Anderson Ruffin Abbott.

Before 1987, a number of private Roman Catholic high schools were operated by several religious orders across Toronto.

Yorkville University is based in multiple provinces and operates additional facilities in Fredericton and Vancouver; having been initially founded in New Brunswick.

Both private universities were granted the authority to confer certain academics degrees by the province through ministerial consent.

[11] Several universities based outside of Toronto also operate satellite campuses and facilities in the city.

Guelph-Humber acts as a satellite campus for its parent institutions, and its graduates are conferred degrees/diplomas from either the University of Guelph or Humber College.

In addition, the city is also home to the satellite campus for Collège Boréal, a college based in Sudbury, Ontario.

From 1995 to 2001, the French first language college, Collège des Grands-Lacs, operated in downtown Toronto.

Toronto holds five faith-based private colleges and seminaries that were granted partial degree-granting powers by the provincial government.

The Institute for Christian Studies, St. Philip's Seminary, and Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College are based in Old Toronto; whereas the Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies and Talpiot College are based in North York.

These are either visa students primarily from Latin America, Asia and Europe, or newly arrived landed immigrants and Canadian citizens.