International Rankings
University rankings are just one method of assessing performance and making institutional comparisons. Different rankings use different measures, so each result must be taken in its own methodological context.
Global – Top 50 – Major Global Rankings
Institution | THE – WUR (2023) |
QS – WUR (2023) |
Shanghai – ARWU (2023) |
NTU – WUR (2023) |
U.S. News – Best Global (2022) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Harvard University | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Stanford University | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
University of Oxford | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
University of Cambridge | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 8 |
Columbia University | 17 | 23 | 8 | 13 | 7 |
UCL | 22 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 12 |
Yale University | 10 | 16 | 11 | 21 | 11 |
University of Pennsylvania | 16 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 15 |
Johns Hopkins University | 15 | 31 | 16 | 6 | 10 |
University of California, Berkeley | 9 | 10 | 5 | 26 | 4 |
Imperial College London | 8 | 6 | 23 | 11 | 13 |
The University of Chicago | 13 | 11 | 10 | 42 | 22 |
University of Toronto | 21 | 21 | 24 | 5 | 18 |
ETH Zurich | 11 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 29 |
Cornell University | 20 | 13 | 12 | 22 | 21 |
Tsinghua University | 12 | 25 | 22 | 14 | 23 |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 23 | 33 | 26 | 10 | 19 |
University of California, Los Angeles | 18 | 29 | 13 | 15 | 14 |
California Institute of Technology | 7 | 15 | 9 | 97 | 9 |
University of California, San Diego | 34 | 62 | 19 | 20 | 20 |
Northwestern University | 28 | 47 | 30 | 35 | 24 |
Princeton University | 6 | 17 | 6 | 111 | 16 |
Peking University | 14 | 17 | 29 | 28 | 39 |
University of Washington (Seattle) | 25 | 63 | 18 | 7 | 6 |
University of Melbourne | 37 | 14 | 35 | 23 | 27 |
Duke University | 26 | 57 | 34 | 28 | 25 |
National University of Singapore | 19 | 8 | 71 | 24 | 26 |
University of Edinburgh | 30 | 22 | 38 | 51 | 34 |
New York University | 27 | 38 | 28 | 58 | 31 |
King’s College London | 38 | 40 | 59 | 36 | 33 |
University of British Columbia | 41 | 34 | 44 | 33 | 35 |
The University of Tokyo | 29 | 28 | 27 | 41 | 81 |
University of Sydney | 60 | 19 | 73 | 31 | 28 |
The University of Queensland | 70 | 43 | 51 | 37 | 36 |
University of Manchester | 51 | 32 | 41 | 62 | 63 |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | 32 | 26 | 93 | 54 | 30 |
McGill University | 49 | 30 | 70 | 57 | 54 |
Washington University in St Louis | 68 | 154 | 25 | 38 | 32 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 72 | 132 | 31 | 43 | 41 |
LMU Munich | 38 | 54 | 59 | 71 | 47 |
University of Copenhagen | 103 | 107 | 32 | 30 | 42 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 63 | 102 | 35 | 60 | 63 |
University of New South Wales | 84 | 19 | 72 | 45 | 37 |
Sorbonne University | 75 | 59 | 46 | 32 | 48 |
University of Texas at Austin | 52 | 58 | 43 | 90 | 43 |
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg | 47 | 87 | 55 | 67 | 57 |
Monash University | 54 | 42 | 77 | 34 | 37 |
Zhejiang University | 55 | 44 | 33 | 16 | 93 |
Technical University of Munich | 30 | 37 | 59 | 86 | 79 |
Canadian – U15 peers
Institution | THE – WUR (2023) |
QS – WUR (2023) |
Shanghai – ARWU (2023) |
NTU – WUR (2023) |
U.S. News – Best Global (2022) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
University of Toronto | 21 | 21 | 24 | 5 | 18 |
University of British Columbia | 41 | 34 | 44 | 33 | 35 |
McGill University | 49 | 30 | 70 | 57 | 54 |
McMaster University | 103 | 189 | 98 | 113 | 138 |
Université de Montréal | 111 | 141 | 151-200 | 123 | 156 |
University of Alberta | 109 | 111 | 91 | 86 | 136 |
University of Calgary | 201-250 | 182 | 201-300 | 140 | 175 |
University of Waterloo | 158 | 112 | 151-200 | 214 | 191 |
University of Ottawa | 177 | 203 | 201-300 | 145 | 215 |
Western University | 201-250 | 114 | 301-400 | 221 | 300 |
Dalhousie University | 301-350 | 298 | 301-400 | 308 | 314 |
Queen’s University | 251-300 | 209 | 201-300 | 335 | 429 |
Université Laval | 251-300 | 441 | 301-400 | 260 | 397 |
University of Manitoba | 351-400 | 671-680 | 201-300 | 332 | 372 |
University of Saskatchewan | 351-400 | 345 | 301-400 | 397 | 441 |
Other notable rankings
Ranking | University of Toronto |
---|---|
THE – World Reputation Rankings – 2023 | 21 |
QS – Sustainability – 2023 | 1 |
THE – Global Employability – 2023 | 12 |
Notes:
- Ordered by the sum of ranks (2021).
- Last updated February 16, 2024
- Graduate only universities are excluded from this table.
- For comparability across rankings the “year” used in these tables refers to the year the ranking was published, not the year that the publisher has assigned. For example the “QS World University Ranking 2024” was published in June 2023 and is therefore listed as “2023”.