Canada’s Best Universities 2023: Grade Distribution

These numbers show the percentage of full-time students who entered first year university in the fall of 2021 with high school grade average in the following ranges:

University	Less than 70%	70 to 74.9%	75 to 79.9%	80 to 84.9%	85 to 89.9%	90 to 94.9%	95% or higher
Acadia	0.9	5.4	13.1	21.3	23	25	11.3
Alberta	0	0	3.2	13.4	28.6	38.3	16.5
Bishop’s	0	1.1	16.9	24.3	39	18.1	0.6
Brandon	4.1	4.5	9.3	9.3	24	26.8	22
Brock	0	6.5	13.9	24.3	27.6	21.2	6.3
Calgary	0.1	0.4	3.1	12.5	32.8	34.6	16.4
Cape Breton	4.6	6.2	8.2	17.9	22.6	24.7	15.9
Carleton	0	2	10.5	21.1	29.7	27.4	9.3
Concordia	0	0.7	7.9	25.2	43.9	21.4	0.8
Dalhousie	1	2.3	5.5	13.3	25	30.5	22.2
Guelph	0	0.5	5.1	19.2	34.7	32.3	8.2
Lakehead	3.3	5.4	13.8	20.6	21.8	22.1	12.8
Laurentian	1.8	5.9	13.6	20.6	25.9	24.5	7.7
Laval	0	0.4	7.2	20.3	38.1	29.5	4.5
Lethbridge	5.9	12.8	19.9	22.3	19.5	13.9	5.7
Manitoba	0	0.5	3.1	6.7	14.8	29.9	45.1
McGill	0	0	0	2	19	56.5	22.5
McMaster	0	0	1.5	6.7	19.9	40.5	31.3
Memorial	0.1	5	9.1	17.7	26.7	29.2	12.1
Moncton	1.1	4.1	12.4	17.1	23.3	29.1	12.8
Montréal	0	0	1.4	9.2	36.4	43.1	9.9
Mount Allison	0	2.9	13.6	14.6	22.5	29.6	16.8
Mount Saint Vincent	2.6	4.5	13.5	14.7	26.3	24.4	13.9
New Brunswick	1	2.9	10.8	18.3	24.7	26	16.2
Nipissing	1.8	2.8	7.7	21.2	27.6	32.1	6.9
UNBC	2	3.3	8.2	17.2	17.6	32.4	19.3
Ontario Tech	1.1	7.6	17.2	26.3	26.7	16.6	4.5
Ottawa	0	1.4	9.3	21.5	29.2	27.7	10.8
UPEI	0	4.3	10.5	17.6	24	28.9	14.6
UQAM	0	0.6	12.4	33.7	39.2	13.4	0.6
Queen’s	0	0	0.6	6.2	19.7	42.9	30.6
Regina	1.2	5.1	9.2	17.3	24.5	30.7	12.1
St. Francis Xavier	0	1.4	9.5	17.1	25	32.6	14.3
Saint Mary’s	1.6	9.9	14.1	16.1	21.5	22.3	14.5
St. Thomas	0	3.9	11.8	15.8	27.6	25	15.8
Saskatchewan	0	4.5	7.3	14.7	19.3	30	24.1
Sherbrooke	0	0.3	3.5	23.1	36.2	30.5	6.5
Simon Fraser	0	0.1	2.4	14.1	39	36.3	8.1
Toronto *	0	0.1	3.6	12.3	25.9	35.9	22.1
Toronto Metropolitan	0	1.4	4.1	14	31	37	12.6
Trent	2	9	14	22	27	21	5
Victoria	0	0.1	2	12.1	30	34.8	21.2
Waterloo	0.1	0.1	1	6.2	16.8	32.6	43.2
Western	0	0.1	0.1	3	22.3	48	26.6
Wilfrid Laurier	0	5.4	9.6	17.1	28.1	30.7	9.1
Windsor	1	7.9	16	26.8	25.6	18.8	4
Winnipeg	5.7	6.5	13.2	17.2	21.4	23.8	12.3
York	0.7	4.6	13.1	24	28.1	21.9	7.7

*Figures are for fall 2020. UBC did not provide figures.

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