Welcome
What is the
Faculty of Information?
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is one of North America’s top information schools, offering both undergraduate and graduate professional degrees as well as an advanced doctoral research degree. Scholars and professionals in the information field research and study all aspects of information as a phenomenon.
Programs
We Study Information
We offer five degree programs that prepare students to work and thrive in the information fields
Bachelor of Information (BI)
The Bachelor of Information is a two-year professional program open to students who have completed two years of undergraduate study in any field. Students acquire both the practical techniques and conceptual tools necessary to understand and effect change in a data-intensive society.
Master of Information (MI)
The Master of Information educates students in established and emerging information fields including Library and Information Science, Archives and Records Management, Information Systems Design, User Experience Design, Human-Centred Data Science and Culture & Technology.
Master of Museum Studies (MMSt)
The Master of Museum Studies is the only English-speaking master’s program of its kind in Canada.
Combined Degree Program (MI and MMSt)
The Combined Degree Program offers students the option of earning both Master of Information and Master of Museum Studies degrees over an accelerated three-year period.
PhD in Information
Doctoral students carry out advanced scholarly research exploring the theoretical basis of information studies. Graduates work in academia, industry and government.
Research
We Research Information
Professors and students research all aspects of information and its role in society
Seeking a deeper understanding of Black life at the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis
Professor SA Smythe established the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis to redefinine traditional approaches to critical inquiry and research as an arts co-working hub, archival nexus and creative studio.
Talking sense into AI
Professor Anastasia Kuzminykh and students in her Human-AI communication lab research how people can better collaborate with artificial intelligence.
Meet our new professors
The Faculty of Information is thrilled to announce it has hired nine new faculty members.
Careers
We Work in Information
Students and alumni are making a big impression in the information fields
Shaping AI and data science policies
Lorena Almaraz (Class of 2022) chose the Human-Centred Data Science concentration to pursue her interest in the policy of data science. She now works in AI governance at Thomson Reuters. “I essentially bring the policy to the technical teams and then represent the technical teams when we’re developing the policy,” she says. “It’s really fun.”
From Co-op student to fulltime UX Designer
MI graduate Abigael Pamintuan (Class of 2021), who specialized in UXD, did her co-op at the software company Autodesk and then accepted a permanent job there as a UX Designer.
Alumni Profile: Mike Borg, Founder Index Biosystems, Class of 2012
The latest venture for serial entrepreneur Mike Borg is a company that uses microscopic barcodes made from baker’s yeast to trace products in the food supply chain.
News Highlights
MI students win global ‘service design’ award
Recent Master of Information grad, Samiha Essakhi, and November ’24 grads, Robyn Carino and Mia Mo, have won the Global Service Design Network Award for their work helping to find innovative solutions for employees seeking to improve health care outcomes in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities aka NORCs. Working under the auspices of the NORC Innovation […]
DCDI Conference tackles data challenges in humanities and social sciences
Media Release: The Dublin Core Data Institute (DCDI) will hold its inaugural international conference on October 19th, bringing together scholars from the humanities, social sciences and data science to foster collaboration on open data use in research. As data becomes increasingly integral to the humanities and social sciences, researchers face unique challenges in developing and […]
TALint student has big ambitions for Indigenous collections
To achieve her goal of working with Indigenous Peoples, Adrianna Lewis originally planned to become a teacher. But she switched course after a revelatory stint as a student assistant at the library for Queen’s University’s Indigenous Teacher Education Program. Not only did Lewis enjoy working with Indigenous materials, she also spent a lot of time talking […]
A GLAM makeover for the Archives of Ontario
Thanks to the GLAM Incubator, the Archives of Ontario has been able to move full speed ahead with a pilot project that will make archival material both easier to discover and more accessible Constrained by tradition and technology, archival descriptions have historically focused on two things: the records themselves and the people and organizations that […]
