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Canada’s Best Universities in 2025 by Medical/Science Grants

Maclean’s tracks faculty success in securing grants from NSERC and CIHR

These figures show the average size and number of peer-adjudicated research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research won by faculty at each school. The dollar amount of grants is listed per full-time faculty member; the number of grants is per 100 full-time faculty members.

MEDICAL DOCTORAL

UniversityRankAvg. Amount ($)Avg. Number
Toronto1311,752228.10
McMaster2182,674118.00
Ottawa3157,335133.15
McGill4138,603126.25
UBC5134,922117.09
Queen's6104,444121.88
Alberta7109,213113.62
Montréal8109,261110.81
Western987,822114.53
Laval1088,49095.83
Calgary1180,00380.40
Manitoba1269,90874.62
Saskatchewan1369,55271.04
Dalhousie1459,87967.12
Sherbrooke1549,11252.92

COMPREHENSIVE

UniversityRankAvg. Amount ($)Avg. Number
Victoria1105,504144.94
Simon Fraser2108,697133.96
Waterloo380,753117.88
Wilfrid Laurier460,048122.62
York565,717109.70
Carleton664,176104.28
UQAM757,731105.80
Regina858,516101.43
Guelph969,18488.25
Concordia1055,56399.73
Windsor1151,59192.04
Brock1237,96288.10
Toronto Metropolitan1344,43380.87
New Brunswick1439,31971.98
Memorial1529,52058.00

PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE

UniversityRankAvg. Amount ($)Avg. Number
Lethbridge162,86098.85
Trent254,200102.47
Ontario Tech353,334102.33
Saint Mary's452,45788.24
Mount Allison541,811100.00
Winnipeg649,67571.43
Mount Saint Vincent747,37746.67
UNBC830,32069.05
Lakehead927,24458.16
Laurentian1026,42941.90
Nipissing1122,33246.67
St. Francis Xavier1221,42541.67
Algoma1318,92941.38
Acadia1417,54941.67
Moncton1516,34540.65
Cape Breton1615,98040.48
Bishop's1716,50033.33
UPEI1817,19029.93
Brandon1911,86929.82
St. Thomas**-N/AN/A

** St. Thomas is exempted from this indicator as it does not offer science programs. Its overall score is calculated on the remaining indicators.