School Ranking
Canadian well-known magazine "Maclean's" published the 2018 Canadian University Ranking on October 11, 2017. Maclean's has released Canadian colleges and universities rankings for a long time which has high reference value, is Canada's only published university ranking list. Maclenas ranked all of Canada's universities into three categories, medical/doctorate university, comprehensive univeristy and primary university.
Medical universities have a wide array of Ph.D. programs and have medical college; comprehensive universities have a large number of research programs and a broad range of undergraduate and graduate-level courses; and primary universities focus on undergraduate education with fewer graduate programs. The top three medical universities this year are McGill University, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia respectively. The top three comprehensive universities are Simon Fraser University, Victoria University and Waterloo University. The top three primary universities arey, Mount Allison University, University of Northern British Columbia and Trent University. Let's take a look at the specific university rankings in 2018:
2018 Maclean's Canadian medical/Doctorate university rankings
2018 Ranking | 2017 Ranking | University | Location |
1 | 1 | McGill University | Montreal, Quebec |
2 | 2 | University of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario |
3 | 3 | UBC | Vancouver,British Columbia |
4 | 4 | Queen’s University | Kingston, Ontario |
5 | 5 | University of Alberta | Edmonton, Alberta |
6 | 6 | McMaster University | Hamilton, Ontario |
7 | 8 | Western University | London, Ontario |
8 | 7 | Dalhousie University | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
9 | 10 | University of Calgary | Calgary, Alberta |
9 | 8 | University of Ottawa | Ottawa,Ontario |
11 | 11 | Montreal University | Montreal, Quebec |
12 | 12 | Laval University | Quebec, Quebec |
13 | 13 | University of Sherbrooke | Sherbrooke, Quebec |
14 | 14 | University of Manitoba | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
14 | 14 | University of Saskatchewan | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
2018 Maclean's Canadian comprehensive university rankings
2018 Ranking | 2017 Ranking | University | Location |
1 | 1 | Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, British Columbia |
2 | 3 | University of Victoria | Victoria, British Columbia |
3 | 2 | University of Waterloo | Waterloo, Ontario |
4 | 4 | Guelph University | Guelph, Ontario |
5 | 5 | Carleton University | Ottawa, Ontario |
6 | 6 | University of New Brunswick | Fredericton, New Brunswick |
6 | 9 | Wilfrid Laurier University | Waterloo, Ontario |
8 | 7 | Momorial University of Newfoundland | St. John’s, Newfoundland |
8 | 7 | York University | Toronto, Ontario |
10 | 10 | Concordia University | Montreal, Quebec |
11 | 11 | Ryerson University | Toronto, Ontario |
12 | 12 | UQAM | Montreal, Quebec |
13 | 13 | University of Regina | Regina, Saskatchewan |
14 | 14 | University of Windsor | Windsor, Ontario |
15 | 15 | Brock University | St. Catharines, Ontario |
2018 Maclean's Canadian primarily undergraduate university rankings
2018 Ranking | 2017 Ranking | University | Location |
1 | 2 | Mount Allison University | Sackville, New Brunswick |
2 | 1 | UNBC | Prince George, British Columbia |
3 | 4 | Trent University | Peterborough, Ontario |
4 | 3 | University of Lethbridge | Lethbridge, Alberta |
5 | 5 | Acadia University | Wolfville, Nova Scotia |
6 | 6 | St. Francis Xavier University | Antigonish, Nova Scotia |
7 | 7 | Saint Mary's University | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
8 | 11 | UOIT | Oshawa Ontario |
9 | 11 | Lakehead Univeristy | Thunder Bay, Ontario |
10 | 8 | UPEI | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
11 | 9 | Bishop's University | Sherbrooke, Quebec |
11 | 10 | Laurentian University | Sudbury, Ontario |
13 | 15 | St. Thomas University | Fredericton, New Brunswick |
14 | 14 | University of Moncton | Edmundston, New Brunswick |
14 | 13 | University of Winnipeg | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
16 | 17 | Brandon University | Brandon, Manitoba |
17 | 16 | Mount Saint Vincent University | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
17 | 18 | Cape Breton University | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
19 | 18 | Nipissing University | North Bay, Ontario |