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Canada’s Best Universities in 2025 by Student Services
Maclean’s tracks the universities’ commitment to funding student services
These figures show the percentage of a university’s total operating expenditures that are devoted to funding student services.
MEDICAL DOCTORAL
University | Rank | Per cent |
---|---|---|
McMaster | 1 | 6.5 |
Western | 2 | 5.3 |
Sherbrooke | 3 | 5.1 |
Manitoba | 4 | 5.0 |
Ottawa | 5 | 4.7 |
Toronto | 6 | 4.5 |
Laval | 7 | 4.2 |
Calgary | 8 | 4.0 |
Queen's | 9 | 3.9 |
UBC | 10 | 3.8 |
McGill | 11 | 3.7 |
Montréal | 12 | 3.4 |
Saskatchewan | 13 | 3.1 |
Dalhousie | 14 | 3.0 |
Alberta | 15 | 2.9 |
COMPREHENSIVE
University | Rank | Per cent |
---|---|---|
Simon Fraser | 1 | 10.0 |
Toronto Metropolitan | 2 | 9.5 |
Windsor | 3 | 8.2 |
Regina | 4 | 7.3 |
Wilfrid Laurier | 5 | 7.2 |
Brock | 6 | 6.6 |
Victoria | 6 | 6.6 |
Carleton | 8 | 6.5 |
Guelph | 9 | 6.2 |
York | 10 | 5.7 |
New Brunswick | 11 | 5.3 |
Waterloo | 12 | 5.0 |
Concordia | 13 | 3.2 |
Memorial | 14 | 3.1 |
UQAM | 15 | 2.2 |
* Indicates a tie
PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE
University | Rank | Per cent |
---|---|---|
Bishop's | 1 | 10.7 |
St. Thomas | 2 | 10.2 |
Cape Breton | 3 | 9.6 |
Nipissing | 4 | 9.1 |
Trent | 4 | 9.1 |
UNBC | 6 | 8.9 |
Brandon | 7 | 8.6 |
Ontario Tech | 8 | 8.2 |
Acadia | 9 | 7.9 |
Lakehead | 10 | 7.7 |
Winnipeg | 11 | 7.6 |
Lethbridge | 12 | 7.5 |
Saint Mary's | 13 | 6.5 |
Mount Allison | 14 | 6.2 |
St. Francis Xavier | 15 | 5.9 |
Mount Saint Vincent | 16 | 5.5 |
Laurentian | 17 | 5.4 |
Moncton | 18 | 5.1 |
UPEI | 19 | 4.7 |
Algoma | 20 | 3.7 |
* Indicates a tie