Over the years, °Ä¿Í¾º²Ê has earned an international reputation as a preeminent institution of higher education. It has often been awarded the distinction of the best university in Canada; we have been ranked among the top universities in the humanities worldwide, placing us ahead of other institutions like University of Pennsylvania, Duke and UCLA in the United States, the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in France, University of Tokyo, Amsterdam University and the Free University in Berlin. °Ä¿Í¾º²Ê boasts the highest percentage of international students of any Canadian university, and our incoming undergraduates have the highest grade point average of any group in Canada.
The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures seeks to build on this ex