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Canada’s Best Universities in 2025 by National Reputational Ranking

The results of Maclean’s reputation survey, which assesses the universities on quality and innovation

October 10, 2024

Maclean’s surveyed university faculty and senior administrators, as well as a variety of business people across the country, asking for their views on quality and innovation at Canadian universities. These charts display the results of the survey, combining all the universities from the Primarily Undergraduate, Comprehensive and Medical Doctoral categories into one group.

BEST OVERALL

RankUniversity
1Toronto
2UBC
3McGill
4Waterloo
5McMaster
6Montréal
7Queen's
8Alberta
9Western
10Simon Fraser
11Calgary
12Laval
13York
14Toronto Metropolitan
15Dalhousie
16Victoria
17Ottawa
18Concordia
19Guelph
20Sherbrooke
21Carleton
22Manitoba
23Wilfrid Laurier
24Memorial
25Saskatchewan
26Ontario Tech
27Brock
28Trent
29UQAM
30New Brunswick
31Acadia
32Mount Allison
33St. Francis Xavier
34Saint Mary's
35Lethbridge
36Regina
37UPEI
38Windsor
39Lakehead
40UNBC
41Bishop's
42Mount Saint Vincent
43Winnipeg
44Moncton
45Laurentian
46Brandon
47Nipissing
48Cape Breton
49St. Thomas
50Algoma