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World ranking names nine Canadian universities to prestigious list for 2019

University of Toronto, UBC and McGill among the top 100 schools

September 26, 2018

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The University of Toronto, UBC and McGill are the top three Canadian universities on the 2019 World University Rankings, published by Times Higher Education. Overall, nine schools from Canada ranked among the top 200 on the global list, up from just six schools in the previous year. As the top ranked Canadian school, the University of Toronto placed 21st on the list, followed by UBC at 37 and McGill, which landed at 44, a tie with the Technical University of Munich. Meanwhile, the University of Montreal cracked the top 100 for the first time since 2013, claiming the 90th spot. New Canadian additions to the top 200 include the University of Ottawa (176), Western University (190) and the University of Calgary (199). Overall, the University of Oxford placed first on the ranking, followed by the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, MIT and the California Institute of Technology. For the past 15 years, Times Higher Education, a data and analysis firm, has ranked research-intensive universities around the world on indicators ranging from reputation to research citations to percentage of international students to their staff-to-student ratio. It ranks 1,250 highereducation institutions in 86 countries. Canadian schools

Canada Table

Institution name	2019 global ranking	2018 global
		ranking
University of Toronto	21	22
University of British Columbia	37	34
McGill University	44	42
McMaster University	77	78
University of Montreal	90	108
University of Alberta	132	119
University of Ottawa	176	201-250
Western University	190	201-250
University of Calgary	199	201-250
University of Waterloo	201-250	201-250
Dalhousie University	251-300	251-300
Laval University	251-300	251-300
Queen's University	251-300	251-300
Simon Fraser University	251-300	251-300
University of Victoria	301-350	301-350
York University	351-400	351-400
University of Manitoba	401-500	401-500
University of Saskatchewan	401-500	401-500
Carleton University	501-600	501-600
University of Guelph	501-600	NR
Memorial University of Newfoundland	501-600	501-600
Concordia University	601-800	501-600
Université du Québec	601-800	501-600
University of Regina	601-800	601-800
Université de Sherbrooke	601-800	501-600
University of Windsor	601-800	601-800
University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)	801-1000	601-800

Global Top 200

Global Table

Institution name	Country/region	2019 global ranking	2018 global ranking
University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1	1
University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2	2
Stanford University	United States	3	3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	4	5
California Institute of Technology	United States	5	3
Harvard University	United States	6	6
Princeton University	United States	7	7
Yale University	United States	8	12
Imperial College London	United Kingdom	9	8
University of Chicago	United States	10	9
ETH Zurich	Switzerland	11	10
Johns Hopkins University	United States	12	13
University of Pennsylvania	United States	12	10
UCL	United Kingdom	14	16
University of California, Berkeley	United States	15	18
Columbia University	United States	16	14
University of California, Los Angeles	United States	17	15
Duke University	United States	18	17
Cornell University	United States	19	19
University of Michigan	United States	20	21
University of Toronto	Canada	21	22
Tsinghua University	China	22	30
National University of Singapore	Singapore	23	22
Carnegie Mellon University	United States	24	24
Northwestern University	United States	25	20
London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	26	25
New York University	United States	27	27
University of Washington	United States	28	25
University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	29	27
University of California, San Diego	United States	30	31
Peking University	China	31	27
LMU Munich	Germany	32	34
University of Melbourne	Australia	32	32
Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	34	33
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	35	38
University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	36	40
University of British Columbia	Canada	37	34
King's College London	United Kingdom	38	36
University of Texas at Austin	United States	39	49
Karolinska Institute	Sweden	40	38
Paris Sciences et Lettres — PSL Research University Paris	France	41	72
The University of Tokyo	Japan	42	46
University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	43	43
McGill University	Canada	44	42
Technical University of Munich	Germany	44	41
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	46	44
Heidelberg University	Germany	47	45
KU Leuven	Belgium	48	47
Australian National University	Australia	49	48
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	50	37
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Singapore	51	52
University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	52	53
Brown University	United States	53	50
Washington University in St Louis	United States	54	50
Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	55	58
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	56	56
University of Manchester	United Kingdom	57	54
Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	58	63
University of California, Davis	United States	59	54
University of Sydney	Australia	59	61
Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	59	64
University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	62	59
Seoul National University	South Korea	63	74
Purdue University	United States	64	60
Kyoto University	Japan	65	74
University of Southern California	United States	66	66
Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany	67	62
Leiden University	Netherlands	68	67
University of Queensland	Australia	69	65
Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	70	72
University of Minnesota	United States	71	56
Ohio State University	United States	71	70
Sorbonne University	France	73	NR
Boston University	United States	74	70
Utrecht University	Netherlands	74	68
University of Freiburg	Germany	76	82
McMaster University	Canada	77	78
University of Bristol	United Kingdom	78	76
University of Groningen	Netherlands	79	83
University of Warwick	United Kingdom	79	91
Pennsylvania State University	United States	81	77
University of Maryland, College Park	United States	82	69
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea	82	111
Emory University	United States	84	98
Monash University	Australia	84	80
Rice University	United States	86	86
RWTH Aachen University	Germany	87	79
Uppsala University	Sweden	87	86
University of Tübingen	Germany	89	94
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany	90	126
University of Montreal	Canada	90	108
University of Zurich	Switzerland	90	136
University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	93	80
Michigan State University	United States	93	83
University of Science and Technology of China	China	93	132
University of California, Irvine	United States	96	99
University of New South Wales	Australia	96	85
Lund University	Sweden	98	93
Dartmouth College	United States	99	89
University of Helsinki	Finland	99	90
Zhejiang University	China	101	177
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea	102	95
University of Basel	Switzerland	103	95
Free University of Berlin	Germany	104	88
Fudan University	China	105	116
University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	106	104
University of Virginia	United States	107	113
École Polytechnique	France	108	115
Georgetown University	United States	109	123
University of Bern	Switzerland	110	105
University of Bonn	Germany	110	100
City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	110	119
University of Pittsburgh	United States	110	100
University of Colorado Boulder	United States	114	100
Durham University	United Kingdom	114	97
University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	116	141
University of Copenhagen	Denmark	116	109
University of Southampton	United Kingdom	118	126
University of York	United Kingdom	119	137
Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland	120	117
University of Oslo	Norway	121	146
Vanderbilt University	United States	121	105
Aarhus University	Denmark	123	109
Arizona State University	United States	123	126
University of Göttingen	Germany	123	113
University of Mannheim	Germany	123	125
Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	123	122
Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium	128	129
Maastricht University	Netherlands	128	103
Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	130	121
Technical University of Berlin	Germany	131	92
University of Alberta	Canada	132	119
Case Western Reserve University	United States	132	158
University of Western Australia	Australia	134	111
University of Adelaide	Australia	135	134
University of Geneva	Switzerland	135	130
University of Hamburg	Germany	135	201-250
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	135	133
Nanjing University	China	135	169
Pompeu Fabra University	Spain	135	140
University of Exeter	United Kingdom	141	130
Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea	142	137
Ghent University	Belgium	143	107
University of Vienna	Austria	143	165
Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain	145	147
University of Cologne	Germany	146	145
Indiana University	United States	146	117
Lancaster University	United Kingdom	146	150
University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	149	147
Ulm University	Germany	149	155
TU Dresden	Germany	151	155
Tufts University	United States	152	169
University of Leeds	United Kingdom	153	139
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna	Italy	153	155
Stockholm University	Sweden	153	134
University of Cape Town	South Africa	156	171
University of Florida	United States	156	143
University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	158	185
University of Arizona	United States	159	161
University of Würzburg	Germany	159	165
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy	161	184
University of Sussex	United Kingdom	161	147
University of Rochester	United States	163	153
Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	163	153
University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	165	143
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands	166	165
University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	167	162
Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	167	141
University of Leicester	United Kingdom	167	159
National Taiwan University	Taiwan	170	198
Newcastle University	United Kingdom	171	175
Texas A&M University	United States	171	159
Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	173	182
University of Notre Dame	United States	173	150
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany	175	162
University of Lausanne	Switzerland	176	152
University of Ottawa	Canada	176	201-250
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	United States	176	172
University of Alabama at Birmingham	United States	179	168
University of Bologna	Italy	180	201-250
Aalto University	Finland	181	190
George Washington University	United States	181	201-250
University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	181	177
University of Münster	Germany	184	173
Northeastern University	United States	184	193
University of Twente	Netherlands	184	179
Cardiff University	United Kingdom	187	162
KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	187	173
University of Konstanz	Germany	189	201-250
University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany	190	201-250
University of East Anglia	United Kingdom	190	188
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	190	188
Western University	Canada	190	201-250
Aalborg University	Denmark	194	201-250
Paris Diderot University — Paris 7	France	194	201-250
University of Technology, Sydney	Australia	196	201-250
University of Bergen	Norway	197	201-250
Korea University	South Korea	198	201-250
University of Calgary	Canada	199	201-250
Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation	199	194

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