University Of Toronto Tops 2013 Times Higher Education World University Report In Canada, 20th Globally

04 Oct 2013

According the 2013 THEWUR (Times Higher Education World University Report), University of Toronto (U of T) has been placed at 20th position globally and is named as the top university in Canada. This is the second major global approval for U of T in less than a month.

In September, QS WUR (World University Rankings) also named University of Toronto as the best Canadian university, and it was placed at 17 globally. This was followed at 21st place by McGill. This marked the first time that another Canadian university has outranked McGill since the inception of QSWUR in 2004.

University of Toronto was the best school nationally in the research-focused ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities) also.

David Naylor, President of U of T said in a statement that the consistently excellent performance in these rankings is due to the merit of their staff, students and faculty.

The top 3 positions of the list were taken by California Institute of Technology, Oxford University and Stanford University. As per the site, the rankings are based on performance metrics as many as 13, including teaching, research, international activity and knowledge transfer.

6 more Canadian universities that made the top 200 list are University of Ottawa (#185), University of Alberta (#109), University of Montreal (#106), McMaster University (#92), McGill University (#35) and University of British Columbia (#31).

Leading Asian universities also caught up with their competitors in the United States and Britain among the global rankings.

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