Every undergraduate is initially assigned to a college when they enter York based on their faculty and program of study:
| Faculty | College | |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Studies | Founders | |
| Fine Arts | Winters | |
| Glendon | Glendon | |
| Health | Calumet | Psychology, Health Informatics, Heath Management, Health Policy |
| Stong | Kinesiology & Health Science, Nursing | |
| Lassonde School of Engineering | Bethune | |
| Liberal Arts & Professional Studies |
Bethune | Science & Technology Studies |
| Calumet | Cognitive Science | |
| Founders | Anthropology, Canadian Studies, East Asian Studies, European Studies, French Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, Geography, Geography & Urban Studies, German Studies, Health and Society, History, Human Rights & Equity Studies, International Development Studies, Italian Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Linguistics, Multicultural and Indigenous Studies, Portuguese Studies, Russian Studies,Sexuality Studies, Social Work, South Asian Studies, Spanish, Urban Studies | |
| McLaughlin | Criminology, Global Political Studies, Law & Society, Political Science, Public Administration, Social Science, Sociology, Work and Labour Studies | |
| New | Administrative Studies, Disaster and Emergency Management, Human Resources Management, Information Technology | |
| Stong | English, Creative Writing, Professional Writing | |
| Vanier | Business & Society, Business & Economics, Children's Studies, Classical Studies & Classics, Culture and Expression, Economics, Financial & Business Economics, Hellenic Studies, Humanities, Individualized Studies, Jewish Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Social & Political Thought, undecided LAPS majors | |
| Winters | Communications Studies | |
| Schulich | Calumet | |
| Science | Bethune | |
