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Markham Campus Student Experience

Built for Community

Markham Campus can accommodate up to 4,200 students in spaces deliberately designed to encourage collaboration among students, Faculties, and programs. Our campus offers exciting opportunities to shape an intimate, interactive, and supportive community while retaining connections with, and easy access to, the larger tri-campus York network. York’s inter-campus shuttle service is free. 

Markham Campus Facilities – 5 Knock-out Features

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Modern and accessible common areas

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Ten floors of teaching and learning space

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Multi-faith space, an Indigenous learning circle and enhanced accessibility features

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Unique classrooms featuring state-of-the-art technology

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Media creation space, makerspaces and a virtual reality and gaming Lab

Designed for Wellbeing


The Campus Common

A large, landscaped open space incorporates significant greenery to create a tranquil and vibrant ambience. It serves as an informal, outdoor assembly space and focal point for bringing people together to exchange ideas and make new friendships. 


At Ease with Being Green  

Constructed to maximize natural light, open spaces and sinuous curves, our main building is as easy on your eye as it is on the environment. Four levels feature green roofs visible from higher floors. Interiors are outfitted with low-emitting, sustainable materials, and furnishings as well as low-mercury lighting and high-performance window glazing.  Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood, salvaged and recycled materials and natural stone are used throughout.


Recognized for Sustainability 

Our campus is designed and constructed to meet independent, third-party Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification recognizing the sustainability of our design, construction, operations and management.

Markham Campus Library

Fostering Research and Knowledge

Consume, network, experiment, discover, and produce new knowledge through creative activity and interdisciplinary interaction. 

The Markham Campus Library is a campus focal point and hub that fosters research and knowledge mobilization in practice, with students at the centre of all teaching and learning. It is designed to actualize digital fluencies, communities of practice, and supports for experiential learning while fostering the art of critical making and creative entrepreneurship. 

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Metropia Student Success Centre – A Central Hub for All York Students 

Centre Yourself

Supporting your academic and personal success is our only focus in the Metropia Student Success Centre. This energetic hub for all student supports and services at Markham Campus is dedicated to helping you realize your full intellectual, personal and career potential. 

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The Metropia Student Success Centre will give you access to the student success and academic advising office, a multipurpose wellness studio and spaces for academic success, accessibility services, mentoring and counselling. Student life spaces will allow you to engage with student government, join student clubs and organizations and collaborate with others to plan events on campus and within the community. 

Student Success and Academic Advising

Markham Campus takes a uniquely integrated and personalized approach to helping students succeed. 

Each Markham Campus student will have a Student Success & Academic Advisor for the duration of their studies who will work with them to develop and achieve career goals and educational plans. Advisors will help students stay on track and refer to other supports and services within the Metropia Student Success Centre and beyond to maximize their success and engagement. 

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Additional Services

We at York University know that a great education requires a fine balance of academic success, personal well-being, terrific support services and a sense of community. You get all that at York as a Markham Campus Student! 

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We offer financial support to students with detailed information on tuition and fees, how to apply for scholarships and bursaries, and our student financial advising services. 

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We offer expertise with Student Accessibility Services and provide the accommodations that are appropriate, necessary, and reasonable.

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Experiential Education at Markham Campus

Complement your in-class learning with hands-on experience through applied projects, hackathons, community-based learning opportunities and more. Markham Campus programs equip you with the skills you need for a seamless transition into the workplace. 


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Career Preparation  

Our experiential education offerings are uniquely focused on professional development, drawing deeply on the perspectives, insights and contributions of industry and community leaders. 


Co-Ops, Internships and More  

Through field placements and co-ops, internships and work-integrated learning, case-studies and capstone projects, you acquire job-ready skills and a firm understanding of how to plan, initiate, and actualize your career journey. 

Student Life

Make memories. Make impact. Make the most of your student experience. Our campuses are places where bold ideas take shape and lifelong connections are made. York is a supportive, caring environment with a shared commitment to inclusion and collaboration. We believe our strength is in our diversity. 

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Make Yourself at Home  

York University has partnered with 4stay, a student housing organization, to provide Markham Campus students with a local living option that is affordable and close to campus.

For housing questions, please contact markhamhousing@yorku.ca

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Off-Campus Housing  

Beyond guaranteed housing on the Keele campus, additional housing options near the Markham campus are expected to be available. Explore alternative housing options through listings, roommate boards and renter resources. 

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