(Photo courtesy of Bonnie Findley/University of Ottawa)
Canada’s Best Universities 2023: Proportion who Graduate
Maclean’s tracks undergraduate students to determine if they received a degree within seven years
These numbers show the percentage of full-time, first-year students in the fall of 2012 who graduated by 2019.
 University |
Per cent |
|---|---|
| Queen’s | 89.2 |
| Sherbrooke | 88.2 |
| Western | 87.1 |
| Laval | 85.7 |
| McGill | 84.6 |
| Calgary | 83.0 |
| Waterloo | 82.4 |
| McMaster | 81.5 |
| Guelph | 81.0 |
| Toronto | 80.8 |
| Montréal | 79.9 |
| UBC | 78.0 |
| Alberta | 77.2 |
| UQAM | 76.9 |
| Ottawa | 75.0 |
| Toronto Metropolitan | 75.0 |
| Wilfrid Laurier | 74.6 |
| Lethbridge | 73.9 |
| Lakehead | 73.8 |
| Windsor | 73.5 |
| St. Francis Xavier | 72.9 |
| Bishop’s | 72.1 |
| Laurentian | 71.1 |
| Nipissing | 71.0 |
| UPEI | 70.8 |
| Brock | 70.2 |
| Concordia | 69.9 |
| Acadia | 69.5 |
| Simon Fraser | 69.1 |
| Carleton | 69.0 |
| Dalhousie | 68.7 |
| Trent | 68.4 |
| York | 68.4 |
| Saskatchewan | 67.1 |
| Ontario Tech | 66.0 |
| Memorial | 65.5 |
| Mount Allison | 65.2 |
| Manitoba | 64.9 |
| New Brunswick | 63.0 |
| Victoria | 62.4 |
| UNBC | 61.1 |
| Cape Breton | 58.9 |
| Regina | 58.5 |
| Moncton | 58.4 |
| St. Thomas | 54.9 |
| Saint Mary’s | 54.2 |
| Mount Saint Vincent | 53.6 |
| Brandon | 46.1 |
| Winnipeg | 44.7 |
More on Canada’s best universities:
Average entering gradeGrade distributionStudent retention Average class sizeFaculty with highest degree in their field
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