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	University	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	University	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	University	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

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