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 (2021)	Shanghai Ranking - ARWU (2021)	National Taiwan University Ranking (2020)	U.S. News & World Report (2020)
University of Toronto	18	26	22	3	17
The University of British Columbia	34	46	42	33	31
McGill University	40	27	67	49	51
University of Alberta	131	126	101-150	92	138
University of Montreal	73	111	101-150	115	140
McMaster University	69	140	92	120	133
University of Calgary	200	235	151-200	147	174
University of Ottawa	145	230	201-300	156	192
Western University	201-250	170	201-300	214	287
Laval University	251–300	414	301-400	268	361
University of Waterloo	201-250	149	151-200	238	210
Dalhousie University	251–300	272	201-300	311	325
University of Manitoba	351–400	601-650	301-400	308	390
Queen’s University	251–300	240	201-300	381	419
University of Saskatchewan	401–500	458	301-400	467	538

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International Rankings – International Institutions

Institution	National Taiwan University 2020	US News & World Report 2020	Times Higher Education 2020	Shanghai Ranking (ARWU) 2021	QS World University Rankings 2021
Harvard University	1	1	3	1	5
Stanford University	2	3	2	2	=3
University of Oxford	6	5	1	7	2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7	2	5	4	1
University of California – Berkeley	16	4	7	5	32
University of Cambridge	11	9	6	3	=3
University of California – Los Angeles	12	13	15	14	40
Columbia University	13	6	17	8	19
Johns Hopkins University	4	10	12	16	25
University of Chicago	24	15	10	10	10
Yale University	19	11	8	11	=14
University of Washington – Seattle	8	8	29	19	85
California Institute of Technology	65	7	4	9	6
University of Pennsylvania	10	14	13	15	13
Imperial College London	14	20	11	25	7
University College London	5	19	16	17	=8
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor	9	17	22	26	=23
University of Toronto	3	17	18	22	26
Cornell University	28	22	19	12	21
Duke University	20	23	20	32	52
University of California – San Diego	18	21	33	18	48
Princeton University	86	11	9	6	20
Northwestern University	27	24	24	34	30
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)	21	26	14	21	=8
University of British Columbia	33	31	34	42	46

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Other notable rankings

Ranking	University of Toronto
THE –  World Reputation Rankings – 2020	20
QS –  Graduate Employability – 2019	16
THE – Global Employability – 2020	8
Reuters Innovative Universities – 2019	27

Notes:

• Ordered by the sum of ranks (2017).
• Last updated August 18, 2021.
• 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 2022” was published in June 2021 and is therefore listed as “2021”.