A university college is a federated or affiliated academic university institution of a larger public university (often referred to as the "parent" campus). Federated and affiliated colleges have existed in Ontario, Canada, for over a century. [1] The establishment of these institutions came from Christian religious groups. There are a total of 16 such university colleges in Ontario.
University colleges share a number of characteristics:
"Affiliated" and "federated" are often used interchangeably when describing a university college, but they have somewhat different legal relationship with the parent campus. For example, affiliated university colleges typically suspend their degree-granting powers so their students are able to officially earn their degree from the “parent” institution. [2] A federated university college differs in that, although it is a type of affiliation, it is where "two or more institutions come together to create a new university that is recognized by civic authorities and is eligible for government funding" (MacDonald, 2016). [3]
Public university | Affiliated or federated institution | Year of affiliation or federation | Religious heritage |
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Brock University | Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary | 1976 | Lutheran |
McMaster University | McMaster Divinity College | 1957 | Baptist |
Queen’s University | Queen's Theological College (now Queen’s School of Religion) | 1912 | United |
University of Toronto | Emmanuel College | 1925 | United |
Knox College | 1890 | Presbyterian | |
Regis College | 1978 | Catholic | |
St. Augustine’s Seminary | 1978 | Catholic | |
Toronto School of Theology | 1979 | Multiple | |
Wycliffe College | 1885 | Anglican | |
University of Windsor | Assumption University | 1919 (Western), 1963 (Windsor) | Catholic |
Canterbury College | 1957 (Assumption), 1963 (Windsor) | Anglican | |
Iona College | 1963 | United | |
Western University | St. Peter’s Seminary | 1912 | Catholic |
Wilfrid Laurier University | Martin Luther University College | 1914 | Lutheran |
Note: Some theological institutions are affiliated with another affiliated institution, which in turn is affiliated with a publicly supported university. [5] |
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