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Where students study the most 2016: full results

A full list of 53 schools, ranked by average hours spent studying a week, calculated from self-reported data from the Maclean’s student survey

By Zane Schwartz

March 13, 2016

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Maclean’s surveyed more than 10,000 students at 100 universities across Canada in the late summer and early fall of 2015 on how many hours a week they spent studying. We calculated an average for each school, rounded to the nearest thousandth, using the number of hours per week divided by the number of respondents from each school. A minimum of 50 responses per school was required for inclusion. For a photo gallery of the top 20 click here. To see the schools where students said they party the most click here.

Study Schools

Rank	University	Average number of hours spent studying per week
1	Queen's	19.966
2	Mount Allison	19.912
3	McGill	19.312
4	UBC	18.962
5	McMaster	18.747
6	Western	18.728
7	Laval	18.502
8	Waterloo	18.471
9	Athabasca	18.395
10	Sherbrooke	17.989
11	Lakehead	17.419
12	Ottawa	17.292
13	Victoria	17.275
14	New Brunswick	17.229
15	Alberta	17.000
16	Toronto	16.989
17	UNBC	16.938
18	Carleton	16.926
19	UPEI	16.889
20	Guelph	16.553
21	Manitoba	16.403
22	Moncton	16.402
23	Laurentian	16.202
24	Windsor	16.076
25	Acadia	16.021
26	Dalhousie	15.806
27	Concordia	15.658
28	Calgary	15.576
29	Regina	15.489
30	UOIT	15.404
31	Saskatchewan	15.372
32	St. Francis Xavier	15.181
33	Wilfrid Laurier	15.012
34	Ryerson	14.575
35	Brock	14.538
36	York	14.297
37	MacEwan	14.215
38	Simon Fraser	13.795
39	Mount Royal	13.576
40	Memorial	13.525
41	Lethbridge	13.456
42	Brandon	13.213
43	Trent	13.167
44	Montréal	13.109
45	Nipissing	12.922
46	Bishop's	12.773
47	Capilano	12.111
48	Winnipeg	12.096
49	MSVU	12.061
50	St. Thomas	11.782
51	Cape Breton	11.152
52	Saint Mary's	10.789
53	UQAM	10.386