Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario)

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Ryerson University is a publicly funded post-secondary education institution located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ryerson was founded in 1948 and is named after Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882), chief superintendent of education for Canada West.

Ryerson University today has 20,000 full-time students and is the largest of the 21 universities in Canada in the 'primarily undergraduate' category. Offering more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, Ryerson's growing research activities have a strong applied focus. Ryerson is well known for its media-related programs, specifically:

* Journalism, publishers of the award-winning Ryerson Review of Journalism magazine;
* Radio and Television Arts, the only four-year broadcasting degree in Canada;
* Interior Design, one of the only two universities in Canada that offers a four-year degree program; and
* Image Arts (film, photography and new media), Canada's most prestigious fine arts program.

The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education is the country's largest provider of university-level adult education with over 60,000 enrollments.