
Canada’s Best Universities by Scholarships and Bursaries: Rankings 2023
These figures show the percentage of a university’s total operating expenditures that are devoted to funding scholarships and bursaries.
Medical Doctoral
| Rank | Per cent | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | McGill | 17 |
| 2 | Ottawa | 13.5 |
| 3 | Dalhousie | 13.4 |
| 4 | Queen’s | 13.2 |
| 5 | Calgary | 12.5 |
| 6 | Manitoba | 12.1 |
| *7 | Alberta | 11.8 |
| *7 | Western | 11.8 |
| 9 | Toronto | 11.7 |
| 10 | Laval | 10.8 |
| 11 | Montréal | 10.3 |
| 12 | UBC | 8.9 |
| 13 | Saskatchewan | 8.7 |
| 14 | Sherbrooke | 7.6 |
| 15 | McMaster | 6.9 |
Comprehensive
| Rank | Per cent | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterloo | 15.6 |
| 2 | York | 12.8 |
| 3 | Victoria | 11.2 |
| 4 | Carleton | 10.9 |
| 5 | Guelph | 10.7 |
| 6 | Brock | 9.7 |
| 7 | Wilfrid Laurier | 8.9 |
| *8 | Concordia | 8.6 |
| *8 | Simon Fraser | 8.6 |
| *10 | Memorial | 8.1 |
| *10 | Toronto Metropolitan | 8.1 |
| 12 | Regina | 8 |
| 13 | New Brunswick | 7 |
| 14 | UQAM | 6.7 |
| 15 | Windsor | 6.3 |
Primarily Undergraduate
| Rank | Per cent | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Allison | 11.1 |
| 2 | Saint Mary’s | 10.5 |
| 3 | Trent | 9.1 |
| 4 | UPEI | 8.3 |
| 5 | Bishop’s | 8.2 |
| 6 | Lakehead | 7.7 |
| *7 | Acadia | 7.6 |
| *7 | St. Thomas | 7.6 |
| 9 | St. Francis Xavier | 7 |
| 10 | Mount Saint Vincent | 6.9 |
| 11 | Moncton | 6.7 |
| *12 | Nipissing | 6.5 |
| *12 | Winnipeg | 6.5 |
| 14 | Ontario Tech | 6.3 |
| 15 | Brandon | 6.1 |
| *16 | Laurentian | 5.4 |
| *16 | Lethbridge | 5.4 |
| 18 | Cape Breton | 5.2 |
| 19 | UNBC | 4.6 |
* Indicates a tie
More numbers behind the rankings: Canada’s best universities by student awardsCanada’s best universities by student/faculty ratioCanada’s best universities by faculty awardsCanada’s best universities by social sciences and humanities grantsCanada’s best universities by medical/science grantsCanada’s best universities by total research dollarsCanada’s best universities by operating budgetCanada’s best universities by library expensesCanada’s best universities by library acquisitionsCanada’s best universities by students servicesCanada’s best universities by reputation
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