The latest edition of Maclean’s annual ranking of Canadian colleges and universities has been published. This ranking group colleges and universities into three categories:

• Medical doctoral schools which include institutions with doctoral programmes and medical schools
• Comprehensive schools which have a significant amount of research activity and offer postgraduate programmes including professional degrees
• Primarily undergraduate universities which have limited postgraduate programmes and relatively few graduate students.

The ranking criteria are Student Awards, Student/Faculty Ratio, Faculty Awards, Total Research Dollars, Scholarships and Bursaries, and Student Services.

The top five medical doctoral schools are:

1. McGill University
2. University of Toronto
3. University of British Columbia
4. McMaster University
5. Queen’s University.

The top five comprehensive schools are:

1. Simon Fraser University
2. University of Victoria
3. University of Waterloo
4. Guelph University
5. Carleton University.

The top five primarily undergraduate institutions are:

1. University of Northern British Columbia
2. Mount Allison University
3. Trent University
4. St Mary’s University
5. Acadia University.

Source

Maclean’s