Canada’s Best Universities by Faculty Awards: Rankings 2023

These figures show the five-year tally (2017-21) of the number of full-time professors, per 1,000, who have won national awards.

Medical Doctoral

Rank	University	No. of Awards
1	Toronto	12.2
2	McGill	9.4
3	Ottawa	8
4	Queen’s	7.4
5	McMaster	6.8
6	Dalhousie	6.7
7	Alberta	5.4
*8	UBC	5.2
*8	Montréal	5.2
10	Western	3.9
11	Laval	3.5
*12	Calgary	2.6
*12	Manitoba	2.6
*12	Saskatchewan	2.6
15	Sherbrooke	2.2

Comprehensive

Rank	University	No. of Awards
1	Victoria	7.1
2	Waterloo	5.3
3	Simon Fraser	4.4
4	Guelph	3.5
5	Carleton	2.9
6	Brock	2.8
7	York	2.7
8	UQAM	2.1
9	Memorial	2
10	Windsor	1.5
11	Wilfrid Laurier	1.4
12	Regina	1.1
13	Concordia	0.8
*14	New Brunswick	0.7
*14	Toronto Metropolitan	0.7

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Rank	University	No. of Awards
1	Bishop’s	3.4
2	UPEI	3.3
3	Mount Allison	3
4	Acadia	2.9
5	St. Francis Xavier	2.6
*6	Saint Mary’s	2.3
*6	Trent	2.3
8	UNBC	2.1
9	Lakehead	1.8
*10	Laurentian	1.5
*10	Mount Saint Vincent	1.5
12	Winnipeg	1.2
13	Nipissing	1.1
14	Lethbridge	0.9
15	Moncton	0.6
*16	Brandon	none
*16	Cape Breton	none
*16	Ontario Tech	none
*16	St. Thomas	none

* Indicates a tie

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