New Rankings (THE & QS)

International Students
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<p>How have Canadian universities fared in the recently-published 2011-2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings & 2011-2012 QS World University Rankings, respectively (general rankings)? </p>

<p>2011-2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings (released October 2011):</p>

<p>University of Toronto - 19th in the world, 1st in Canada</p>

<p>University of British Columbia - 22nd in the world, 2nd in Canada</p>

<p>McGill University - 28th in the world, 3rd in Canada</p>

<p>McMaster University - 65th in the world, 4th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Alberta - 100th in the world, 5th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Montreal - 104th in the world, 6th in Canada</p>

<p>Queen's University - 173rd in the world, 7th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Victoria - 177th in the world, 8th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Ottawa - 185th in the world, 9th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Waterloo - in the 201 to 225 rank globally, tied for 10th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Western Ontario - in the 201 to 225 rank globally, tied for 10th in Canada</p>

<p>More @</p>

<p>Top</a> 400 - The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-2012</p>

<p>2011-2012 QS World University Rankings (released September 2011):</p>

<p>McGill University - 17th in the world, 1st in Canada</p>

<p>University of Toronto - 23rd in the world, 2nd in Canada</p>

<p>University of British Columbia - 51st in the world, 3rd in Canada</p>

<p>University of Alberta - 100th in the world, 4th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Montreal - 137th in the world, 5th in Canada</p>

<p>Queen's University - 144th in the world, 6th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Western Ontario - 157th in the world, 7th in Canada</p>

<p>McMaster University - 159th in the world, 8th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Waterloo - 160th in the world, 9th in Canada</p>

<p>University of Calgary - 218th in the world, 10th in Canada</p>

<p>More @</p>

<p><a href="http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>McGill and UofT are interchangeable internationally, but McGill places higher and more consistently</p>

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<p>I don’t know. This is the second year in a row that Toronto (despite losing two spots from last year globally) has placed 1st in Canada on the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. (On last year’s 2010-2011 ranking, Toronto also took 1st place in Canada regarding ‘Engineering & Technology’, ‘Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health’, ‘Physical sciences’, ‘Social Sciences’, and ‘Arts & Humanities’. The only subject area in which it did not take 1st place was ‘Life sciences’; the University of British Columbia took 1st place, with Toronto 2nd and McGill 3rd. The new 2011-2012 THE specific subject area rankings will be released throughout October and November, but I don’t imagine the results being all that different for Canada.)</p>

<p>Toronto also placed 1st in Canada on the 2011 *Academic Ranking of World Universities<a href=“ARWU;%20the” title=“Shanghai”>/I</a> – released August 15, 2011 – as it has done every single year since the ARWU’s inception in 2003. That’s pretty good consistency.</p>

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<p>UofT gets no love on these forums.</p>

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<p>Huh. I never would have considered UdeM better than queen’s…</p>

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<p>What’s wrong with these rankings, Queen’s is a top 3 school in canada. It has the second highest enterance gpa. They keep placing this university at the bottom for being a mid-sized institution. </p>

<p>Ps.: a ranking that says penn state is better than georgetown is not so reliable anyways…</p>

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<p>The worldwide rankings look primarily at research output. USNews and Macleans look at undergraduate criteria. Queen’s and Georgetown are not huge research schools but rather they concentrate on undergraduate studies.</p>

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<p>To have 2 undisputed universities in the global top 30, and 3 by another measure is awesome.</p>

<p>Canadians HE is in good shape. </p>

<p>McGill and UT are excellent schools.</p>

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<p>How come nobody talks about UBC?</p>

<p>Whenever the topic about Canadian universities is brought up, people just keep mentioning McGill and UofT. </p>

<p>Though UT and McGill beat UBC in terms of research output, the latter trumps them in terms of undergrad teaching.</p>

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<p>You can back that up with data?</p>

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<p>**How come nobody talks about UBC?</p>

<p>Whenever the topic about Canadian universities is brought up, people just keep mentioning McGill and UofT.</p>

<p>Though UT and McGill beat UBC in terms of research output, the latter trumps them in terms of undergrad teaching.**</p>

<p>This may be the case, but ‘undergraduate teaching’ is not the stuff of high global university rankings. Research power is. </p>

<p>Harvard isn’t Harvard because it provides its students with the best undergraduate experience. Its fame (reputation, prestige) is due to its research power.</p>

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<p>spasticity, </p>

<p>I actually think UBC trumps McGill for research.</p>

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<p>^^</p>

<p>orly?</p>