For a summary of the University of Toronto’s performance  in PDF format please see the Overview and Rankings

The University is pleased to see its faculty and students receive recognition for their academic success. Institutional and discipline rankings are just one method of assessing performance and U of T’s place among the world’s leading Universities. Different rankings use different measures, so each result must be taken in its own methodological context. Reputational rankings are distinguished from other rankings in that they rely on one measure – the views and assessments of academics worldwide.

• International Rankings – Canadian Institutions
• International Rankings – International Institutions
• Reputational Ranking – Times Higher Education

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International Rankings – Canadian Institutions

Institution	Times Higher Education - WUR (2020)	QS - World University Ranking (2020)	Shanghai Ranking - ARWU (2020)	National Taiwan University Ranking (2019)	U.S. News & World Report (2019)
University of Toronto	18	25	23	4	18
The University of British Columbia	34	45	38	27	30
McGill University	40	31	78	47	49
University of Alberta	131	119	101-150	81	139
University of Montreal	73	118	151-200	104	139
McMaster University	69	144	98	119	126
University of Calgary	200	246	151-200	132	178
University of Ottawa	145	279	151-200	147	198
Western University	201-250	203	201-300	197	276
Laval University	251–300	420	301-400	255	315
University of Waterloo	201-250	166	151-200	242	217
Dalhousie University	251–300	291	201-300	301	322
University of Manitoba	351–400	601-650	301-400	301	388
Queen’s University	251–300	246	201-300	344	379
University of Saskatchewan	401–500	465	301-400	428	541

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International Rankings – International Institutions

Institution	National Taiwan University 2019	US News & World Report 2019	Times Higher Education 2020	Shanghai Ranking (ARWU) 2020	QS World University Rankings 2020
Harvard University	1	1	3	1	3
Stanford University	2	3	2	2	2
University of Oxford	5	5	1	9	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	9	2	5	4	1
University of California – Berkeley	15	4	7	5	30
University of Cambridge	10	9	6	3	7
University of California – Los Angeles	12	14	15	13	36
Columbia University	13	7	17	7	19
Johns Hopkins University	3	11	12	15	25
University of Chicago	22	13	10	10	9
Yale University	19	12	8	11	17
University of Washington – Seattle	7	10	29	16	72
California Institute of Technology	63	6	4	8	4
University of Pennsylvania	11	16	13	19	16
Imperial College London	14	20	11	25	8
University College London	6	21	16	16	10
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor	8	17	22	22	21
University of Toronto	4	18	18	23	25
Cornell University	24	23	19	12	18
Duke University	20	22	20	27	42
University of California – San Diego	16	19	33	18	54
Princeton University	85	8	9	6	12
Northwestern University	25	24	24	30	29
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)	48	25	14	20	6
University of British Columbia	27	30	34	38	45

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Other notable rankings

Ranking	University of Toronto
THE –  World Reputation Rankings – 2019	19
QS –  Graduate Employability – 2019	16
THE – Global Employability – 2019	15
Reuters Innovative Universities – 2019	27

Notes:

• Ordered by the sum of ranks (2017).
• Last updated June 2020.
• Graduate only schools, e.g. University of California – San Francisco, are excluded from most rankings and 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 ranking publisher has assigned. For example the “QS World University Ranking 2021” was published in June 2020 and is therefore listed as “2020”.