W100 Representative
Robin EdmisonExecutive Director, University Brand & Marketing at York University
York is a leading international teaching and research university and a driving force for positive change.
Empowered by a welcoming and diverse community with a uniquely global perspective, we are preparing our students for their long-term career and personal success. Together we are making things right for our communities, our planet, and our future.
The Latest from York University
Challenge systems of oppression, amplify marginalized voices, and drive change toward a more equitable world ✊❤️ Join an info session to learn more about our Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies program!
🗓️ December 10 from 6 - 7 p.m. ET
https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZNxaLWprQb6YCSsW1lbUDQ#/registration
Professor Noam Lemish, from @YorkuAMPD, releases a new album, expanding his cross-cultural exploration of jazz, created with the help of his friends and fellow professor Sundar Viswanathan.
Read more | http://bit.ly/4o0Pab2
#YorkU #GradStudiesYU
This December, York University showcases each Faculty’s top stories of 2025. Learn how York alumni and twin sisters lead in business and how York advances systemic change in homelessness. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4ctEEF8 and https://bit.ly/42anXJX. 📚
@YorkUeducation
Discover how York University students, like Lassonde School of Engineering's Garnet Maxwell, are applying AI to create a smarter and greener future. Watch this video to see how Garnet is leveraging his education to address real-world challenges! ⚙️
@LassondeSchool
Discover how family roots, passion and purpose inspired Angela Nickle’s (BA ’94) pivot from corporate life to sustainable farming. Read more: https://bit.ly/48SAJRU | #TheYorkUMag
This December, York University highlights each Faculty’s top stories of 2025, Discover how the Mirkopoulos family’s support enhances film education and how AMPD grads are excelling at TIFF. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4ht56j1 and https://bit.ly/3K7jm68. 🎥
@YorkuAMPD
York University continues to excel globally, with the latest ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), and York’s aerospace engineering (space engineering) is number one in Canada. 🔭 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oxJq8V.
York University will host a memorial event for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women today and will live-stream it from both the Glendon and Markham campuses. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Rk3xtQ
🎉 Congratulations to Nathan Johnson (MHIA ’26) on receiving the Robert Krembil Scholarship
of Merit!
👏 This award supports future business and healthcare leaders by empowering students to engage in Schulich’s transformative MHIA experience.
#SchulichWin
Fostering global fluencies andcross-cultural knowledges
York University has 300+ partnerships in 64 countries including partnerships with industry, governments, non-profit and private sector companies, and other educational institutions. These collaborative opportunities are co-created so that the missions of both York and the partnering organization are advanced in creating positive change for our students and in local and global communities.
Our commitment to collaboration allows us to address complex global challenges to create positive change in the local and global communities we serve. Solidifying existing international strategic academic alliances, and establishing new alliances is key to expanding outreach and engagement with York’s larger communities.
Experience firsthand York’s global impact and engagement. The University prides itself on championing diversity and inclusivity and fostering global fluencies and cross-cultural knowledges. York community lives these values on one of the largest and most diverse university campuses in Canada.
York’s student body includes about 18 per cent international students and also reflects the diversity of Toronto, one of the world’s most multicultural cities. The University draws scholars and exchange students from around the globe, and our students and faculty have opportunities for exchanges and collaborations at our more than 600 partner institutions worldwide.
York ranked No. 1 in Ontario for global collaborative research publications. Over 60% of York’s publications have an international co-author (SciVal, 2020).
Vision and Core Values
- We strive for Excellence in fulfilling all aspects of our mission
- We are Progressive, encouraging open-minded inquiry, innovative approaches, and forward-looking solutions
- We uphold Sustainability - environmental, social, and fiscal - as a vital compass for decisions and initiatives
- We are passionate about advancing Social Justice and Equity through critical insight, creative problem-solving, and socially responsible action
- We champion Diversity and Inclusivity, embracing differing perspectives, peoples, and ways of knowing, and fostering global fluencies and cross-cultural knowledges
Advancing knowledge andcreating positive change
$24.7m
in knowledge mobilization brokered project research funding
$1.8m+
in revenue generated by start-ups from Innovation York
York conducts purposeful research that advances knowledge and creates positive change. York is committed to excellence in research and scholarship in all its forms. Informed by a strong commitment to shared values, including promoting social justice, diversity, and the public good, we aspire through our research to better understand the human condition and the world around us and employ the knowledge we gain in the service of society. Intensive engagement in research is a core institutional value that permeates the fabric of the University, and it is this foundation on which York’s vibrant and exciting academic environment is built.
- World ranking “high” York’s research output ranked “very high” (QS World University Rankings, 2021).
- No. 1 York is the top-ranked university in Canada for publications on COVID-19 & Mathematical Modeling, with researchers ranked Nos. 1, 3, 4 & 6 in the country (SciVal, 2021).
- No. 1 York is the top-ranked university in Canada for publications on galaxies, stars & galactic evolution with the No. 1 researcher in the country: Science Prof Adam Muzzin, with 30 publications & a 354-citation count. (SciVal, 2021).
- No. 1 York ranked No. 1 in citation impact in Nursing & Health Professions (SciVal, 2020-21).
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