University of Toronto Mississauga - Campus

Campus

The campus consists of a number of buildings arranged across a large, treed lot. The surrounding suburban neighbourhood (the Mississauga Road area and the Credit Woodlands) is a fairly affluent section of the city of Mississauga. The largest building was built as a megalithic structure, predominantly out of concrete, as was typical of the brutalist architecture style of the late 1960s. It was one of architect, Raymond Moriyama's, first major commissions. Other buildings were added over the decades, however, with the enlarged enrollment at the beginning of the new millennium, the pace of construction increased.

A new CCT (formerly CCIT) building, designed by Saucier + Perrot, was opened in September 2004. It is characterized by a poorly finished black and glass exterior. The interior is finished in concrete and gray paint, with black plastic melamine on many surfaces. The new library and academic learning centre, designed by Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners and named after Mississauga's mayor, Hazel McCallion, opened October 8, 2006, and the new Wellness, Recreation and Athletics Centre, also by Shore Tilbe, opened less than a month previous to that. The new library consists of four floors with a mixture of group study tables and individual silent study space.

Mississauga campus became home to a first in Canadian education. Canada's first Forensic Science Institute was created at the U of T Mississauga, opening for the 2007 - 2008 school year. The new institute for postgraduate students forges close ties with the Centre of Forensic Sciences. Plans have also been finalized for the establishment of an Academy of Medicine at the Mississauga campus, in partnership with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. It will provide a community oriented program to increase the number of primary care physicians and general practitioners. The first students were slated for enrollment in 2011. U of T Mississauga is in the midst of an expansion, with student enrollment being projected to reach 12,000 by the end of the decade.

The Mississauga Academy of Medicine, which opened in August 2011 with 54 first-year students, is a partnership among U of T Mississauga, U of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, Trillium Health Centre and Credit Valley Hospital. By 2014, the Academy will have a total of 216 students enrolled in the four-year program. The new facility is located across two floors inside the new Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex and provides brand new classrooms, seminar rooms, computer facilities, learning spaces and laboratories. Students are provided with fully equipped student lounge and outdoor terrace to relax and socialize. Students are able to share lectures and leaning experiences both inside and outside the classroom through advanced technologies.