Our 20th Annual University Rankings
Who has bragging rights? Where should you apply? Our annual exclusive has the answers.
Maclean’s marks schools the same way your intro psych professor will mark you. We assess universities on several key skills and then weigh them to find out who is top of the class. The 49 universities we rank are placed into one of three categories to recognize the differences in levels of research funding, the diversity of offerings, and the range of graduate and professional programs.
To Sign Up and view our Full 2010 Rankings data for each of our three main catergories, click here. For our complete 20th Anniversary edition of the Rankings, pick up a copy on newsstands now.
Medical Doctoral universities offer a broad range of Ph.D. programs and research; all institutions in this category have medical schools.
| Rank | School | Last Year |
| 1 | McGill | (1) |
| 2 | Toronto | (2) |
| 3 | UBC | (4) |
| 4 | Alberta | (5) |
| 5 | Queen’s | (3) |
| 6 | McMaster | (6) |
| 7 | Dalhousie | (7*) |
| 8 | Calgary | (7*) |
| 9 | Western | (9*) |
| 10 | Saskatchewan | (9*) |
| 11 | Ottawa | (9*) |
| 12 | Laval | (12) |
| 13 | Montréal | (13*) |
| 14 | Sherbrooke | (13*) |
| 15 | Manitoba | (15) |
* Indicates a tie
Comprehensive universities have a significant degree of research activity and a wide range of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including professional degrees.
| Rank | School | Last Year |
| 1 | Simon Fraser | (1) |
| 2 | Victoria | (2) |
| 3 | Waterloo | (3) |
| 4 | Guelph | (4) |
| 5 | Memorial | (5) |
| 6 | New Brunswick | (6) |
| 7* | Carleton | (7) |
| 7* | Windsor | (8) |
| 9* | Regina | (9*) |
| 9* | York | (9*) |
| 11 | Concordia | (11) |
| 12 | UQAM | (N/A) |
* Indicates a tie
Primarily Undergraduate universities are largely focused on undergraduate education, with relatively few graduate programs.
| Rank | School | Last Year |
| 1 | Mount Allison | (1) |
| 2 | Acadia | (2) |
| 3 | UNBC | (3) |
| 4 | Lethbridge | (6) |
| 5 | Wilfrid Laurier | (4*) |
| 6 | Trent | (7) |
| 7 | St. Francis Xavier | (4*) |
| 8* | Bishop’s | (11) |
| 8* | UPEI | (8*) |
| 10 | Winnipeg | (8*) |
| 11 | Saint Mary’s | (8*) |
| 12 | Lakehead | (14*) |
| 13 | UOIT | (12) |
| 14* | Brock | (14*) |
| 14* | Laurentian | (18) |
| 16 | St. Thomas | (14*) |
| 17* | Brandon | (13) |
| 17* | Ryerson | (17) |
| 19 | Mount Saint Vincent | (19*) |
| 20 | Moncton | (19*) |
| 21 | Cape Breton | (21*) |
| 22 | Nipissing | (21*) |
Want to know more about how we rank? Please read, Measuring excellence.
I just have to say that anyone who can’t express themselves without swearing must severely lack an education, or intelligence. Don’t get me wrong I am not straight edge, but in an immature meaningless discussion about education and intelligence, such as this one,swearing makes you sound uneducated.
Just like everything else in life, education is what you take from it. University is about so much more than just books; it is a very significant developmental part of your life. I have learned so much more than just factual information from books that I could have googled in a second. When you are 17 and deciding where to go and what to do, do you really know what is best? Do you really know anything? University is about finding who you are and what you want to do….and most of all enjoying your youth.
If you want to check my credentials I am a 4th year science student at Western and when I applied for my undergrad, I got accepted into every program I applied to, I got into science at McMasters, Queen’s commerce, U of T Science, Western Bio Med Sci, and my favourite acceptance letter was the AEO early acceptance to Richard Ivey’s HBA program. Oh yeah I forgot, I got a 5 on my AP calculus exam in grade 12 so I GOT to Western when I was 18 WITH a credit in calculus.
Having said that, I picked UWO because it’s a great school and I like to party, I’m a server at the Keg paying for my education, and I have had a great time.
I don’t know why you are all so concerned with what your University (or lack there of) was ranked on MacLean’s list that changes every year. Apparently everyone missed the course on ‘growing up’.
Also, those green individuals who think that getting into Harvard means you have rich parents, and a plethora of connections are missing some critical points about how to get ahead in life.
The 3 best ways to get ahead in life (especially if you are lacking ‘that thing’)
1) Money
2) Networking
3) An education from Harvard
So I think those rich 18 year-old kids, with a great network, starting there excellent education at Harvard, already know a lot more about getting ahead in life than any one of those delayed individuals that can’t realize that.
>”So I think those rich 18 year-old kids, with a great network, starting there excellent education at Harvard”
>”there”
Nice.
@Everyone
You’re all going to die anyways. Why is this @ the top of you to-do list(s)?
Hurr de durr, my university is better than your university, I would know, Macleans said so!
@ Athiesm
God Exists. You can’t disprove his exsistance. There’s no such thing as constant time, so there couldn’t have been a beginning. Unless a God was around to do so. There’s more evidence toward a god than there is toward not being one.
Oh? You think I’m wrong? Prove it, pseudointellects.
God does not exist because if God does exist then God would help you realize that you do not know how to spell.