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The University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM), was previously known as Erindale College, until 2002. It is a mid-size university, with an enrollment of approximately 7,000 students. As one of the University of Toronto's three campuses -- the other two being the St. George Campus (downtown) and the University of Toronto at Scarborough -- UTM students earn a University of Toronto degree while being able to study in a smaller-scale environment.

UTM is in Mississauga, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto on its western border, set upon a park-like campus on the Credit River. The surrounding neighbourhood (the Mississauga Road area and the Credit Woodlands) is a fairly affluent section of the city. UTM is approximately 33 km away from downtown Toronto.

UTM offers 125 programs among 70 areas of study. The University's most popular programs include anthropology, biology, commerce, CCIT (http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/ccit/) (communications, culture and information technology), computer science, crime and deviance, environmental studies, history, management, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Canada's only program in forensic science is available at UTM. In addition, UTM students can apply for joint-degree programs in Art and art history or Theatre and drama through an arrangement with Sheridan College, allowing students to obtain both a university degree from UTM and a college diploma from Sheridan. The CCIT program is a recent creation and partnership between UTM and Sheridan College. Graduate degrees offered include the Master of Management and Professional Accounting, Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting, Master of Biotechnology and the Master in Biomedical Communications.

UTM is in the midst of an expansion, with student enrollment being projected to reach 12,000 by the end of the decade. A new CCIT building was opened in September of 2004. A new library and academic skills centre, named after Mississauga's mayor, Hazel McCallion, will open in 2006.

The Toronto Argonauts CFL football team trains on the UTM (Erindale) campus.

Notable alumni

Dionne Brand - poet, novelist and community activist
Vaira Vike-Freiberga - president of the Republic of Latvia
John Roberts (J.D. Roberts) - CBS Chief White House Correspondent and news anchor

Desmond Morton (historian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (729 words)
	Born in Calgary, Alberta, Morton is a graduate of the Collège Militaire Royal de St-Jean, the Royal Military College of Canada,a Rhodes Scholar, the University of Oxford (where he received his PhD), and the London School of Economics.
	Morton is the Hiram Mills professor of History at McGill University, as well as the past director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, in Montreal, Quebec.
	Prior to that, he was Principal of Erindale College, University of Toronto, from 1986 to 1994.

Q&A: What university campus opened in 1967 with a "preliminary" building and an enduring commitment to ... (511 words)
	On March 15, 1827, King's College - the precursor to the University of Toronto - was granted its royal charter by King George IV.
	Erindale (now known as the University of Toronto at Mississauga) started life with a "preliminary" building to greet the first class that entered in 1967.
	Residences for Erindale had been recommended because of the negative effect of the lack of residence space at Scarborough, which had not built its first residence until 1973, nine years after the first students arrived.

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