Nine Canadian universities are among the Top 200 educational institutions in the world, according to an annual assessment released by a prominent British publication.
The University of Toronto has been ranked highest among Canadian universities, at No. 19, while two other schools – the University of British Columbia and Montreal’s McGill University – broke the Top 30 on the 2011-2012 Times Higher Education list, at No. 22 and No. 28, respectively.
McMaster University in Hamilton, at No. 65, also broke the Top 100. The University of Alberta claimed the final spot in the Top 100, with the Université de Montréal not far behind, at No. 104.
Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ont., ranked No. 173 on the list, which also counted the University of Victoria (No. 177) and the University of Ottawa (No. 185) among its top 200 institutions.
The ranking touted four U.S. schools in the Top 5, with the California Institute of Technology as the top school in the world, and with Harvard and Stanford ranking No. 2 and No. 3, respectively. Oxford University in the United Kingdom was the fourth-ranked school and Princeton took the fifth spot on the list.
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In total, the U.S. placed 75 universities on the top 200 list, followed by the United Kingdom with 32, the Netherlands and Germany with 12 each.
Times Higher Education judged universities on 13 performance indicators. The magazine says it is the only world ranking that examines all core missions – research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity – of the modern university.
While the Top 200 are broken down to give the schools a specific rank, the list ranks what it calls the world’s best 400 schools, with the latter half not receiving specific scores. Nine other Canadian universities were named in the lower half of the top 400.
This year’s methodology was slightly refined to ensure that universities with particular strength in the arts, humanities and social sciences were placed on a more equal footing with those specializing in science.
Canadian schools in Times Higher Education’s top 200 universities in the world:
19. University of Toronto
22. University of British Columbia
28. McGill University
65. McMaster University
100. University of Alberta
104. Université de Montréal
173. Queen’s University
177. University of Victoria
185. University of Ottawa
Other Canadian universities included in Top 400 (exact ranking not specified):
- University of Waterloo
- University of Western Ontario
- University of Calgary
- Carleton University
- Dalhousie University
- Simon Fraser University
- Guelph University
- York University
- University of Manitoba
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