<p>University</a> rankings - Canada - Macleans.ca
Maclean's, like USNWR in the US, attempts to measure each university overall, with emphasis on the undergraduate experience.</p>
<p>"econgrad
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 152 Perhaps this year we will see UofT ahead of mcgill on Macleans." </p>
<p>Sorry econgrad, maybe next year.</p>
<p>i couldn’t get their methodology for undergraduate ranking. I didn’t even recognized those names! can you clarify it a little bit? (btw, it turns out that McGill still rocks! :))</p>
<p>“Students and classes” is determined by the amount of awards students at the university have received and by student-faculty ratios.</p>
<p>“Faculty” is determined by research grants and awards faculty at the university have received.</p>
<p>“Resources” is determined by the operating budget and total research dollars.</p>
<p>“Student support” is determined by the portion of the university’s budget dedicated to student services and scholarships.</p>
<p>“Library” is determined by expenses (?), acquisitions, and then total holdings and holdings per student.</p>
<p>“Reputation” is determined by a national survey of employers, high school councillors, principals, etc., getting their opinion of each Canadian university.</p>
<p>Those individual rankings and the statistical breakdown can be found in the magazine. But that’s the gist of the methodology. It’s true that most universities have boycotted Maclean’s, forcing them to use data from a few years ago (which has once again put McGill ahead of U of T).</p>
<p>I honestly hope their financial situation improves soon. But seeing how little state funding they are currently getting, McGill is seriously overperforming (or appears so).</p>
<p>Apparently they’re hiking their tuition again, even though they have like the second highest tuition fee in Canada.</p>
<p>actually mcgill has extremely low tuition rate. For Quebec students, it is about $3000 a year. That is nothing. For out of province Canadians, it is around $7000.</p>
<p>mcgill needs to triple to quadruple its tuition to be competitive.</p>
<p>It’s over $7000, compared to most Canadian universities which have $6000 or under.</p>
<p>mcgill is doing bad because it has no money to do anything. So it needs to triple its tuition!!!</p>
<p>Or the Quebec government could actually give them some funding.</p>