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U of T named best in Canada, top 20 in the world by QS world rankings

September 17, 2014

TORONTO, ON — The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to ranks best in Cana­da and among the top 20 uni­ver­si­ties in the world, accord­ing to today’s release of the 2014 QS World Uni­ver­si­ty Rank­ings.

The report also ranked U of T first in Cana­da in all dis­ci­pline areas: arts and human­i­ties, engi­neer­ing and tech­nol­o­gy, life sci­ences and med­i­cine, nat­ur­al sci­ences, and social sci­ences and man­age­ment.

Since 2011, the Uni­ver­si­ty has con­sis­tent­ly ranked in the top 25, and since 2013 has main­tained the top spot in Cana­da.

The QS rank­ings scored uni­ver­si­ties by aca­d­e­m­ic rep­u­ta­tion, employ­er rep­u­ta­tion, fac­ul­ty-stu­dent ratio and cita­tions per fac­ul­ty, among oth­er cat­e­gories. U of T scored 13th for aca­d­e­m­ic rep­u­ta­tion.

“We are pleased to be rec­og­nized once again as the pre­mier uni­ver­si­ty in Cana­da, and to be named among the world’s very best,” said U of T Pres­i­dent Mer­ic Gertler. “Our con­tin­ued strong per­for­mance in the QS rank­ings is a tes­ta­ment to our world-class edu­ca­tion and research, as well as the excel­lence of our fac­ul­ty, staff and stu­dents.”

Along­side U of T, four oth­er Cana­di­an uni­ver­si­ties were ranked among the top 100 schools: McGill Uni­ver­si­ty, Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia, Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal and Uni­ver­si­ty of Alber­ta.

The QS World Uni­ver­si­ty Rank­ings – wide­ly con­sid­ered among the most influ­en­tial inter­na­tion­al uni­ver­si­ty rank­ings – have been pub­lished since 2004, col­lect­ing 90,000 sur­vey respons­es and eval­u­at­ing more than 850 uni­ver­si­ties over 10 years.

U of T’s strong aca­d­e­m­ic and research per­for­mance con­tin­ues to rank high this year – in August, the uni­ver­si­ty was named the top insti­tu­tion in Cana­da and 24th in the world by the Shang­hai Jiao Tong University’s Aca­d­e­m­ic Rank­ing of World Uni­ver­si­ties.

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