This Canadian university was just ranked among the top 5 research schools in the world
A Canadian university just got some major recognition on the global stage, and it's rubbing shoulders with some of the best universities in the world.
According to a recently published global ranking, the University of Toronto is the fourth-best university in the world for research, topped only by Harvard, Stanford and University College London.
It even beat out research heavyweights like Oxford (5th), Johns Hopkins (6th), Cambridge (9th) and MIT (10th). That's right – U of T is holding its own alongside some of the biggest names in higher education across the world.
The National Taiwan University (NTU) World University Rankings evaluate universities across the globe based on their research impact and output. These rankings focus on how much research a university produces, the quality of that research and how influential it is globally.
Beyond the overall list, the NTU rankings also assess schools on a wide variety of subjects and rank them in field- and subject-specific lists. This year, U of T stood out out in a wide range of fields, ranking second globally in medicine and third in social sciences. The university also ranks among the top 10 worldwide in several specific subjects, including clinical medicine, neuroscience, psychiatry and biology.
Of the 1,561 schools ranked in this year's list, only three Canadian universities made the top 100 — though none came close to touching U of T. In 37th place was UBC, and McGill came in at #57.
Here's the full list of the 10 highest-ranking Canadian universities for research this year:
- University of Toronto — #4 overall
- University of British Columbia — #37 overall
- McGill University — #57 overall
- University of Alberta — #101 overall
- McMaster University — #128 overall
- Université de Montréal — #129 overall
- University of Calgary — #148 overall
- University of Ottawa — #150 overall
- Western University — #213 overall
- University of Waterloo — #214 overall
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