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 (2020)	U.S. News & World Report (2020)
University of Toronto	18	25	23	3	17
The University of British Columbia	34	45	38	33	31
McGill University	40	31	78	49	51
University of Alberta	131	119	101-150	92	138
University of Montreal	73	118	151-200	115	140
McMaster University	69	144	98	120	133
University of Calgary	200	246	151-200	147	174
University of Ottawa	145	279	151-200	156	192
Western University	201-250	203	201-300	214	287
Laval University	251–300	420	301-400	268	361
University of Waterloo	201-250	166	151-200	238	210
Dalhousie University	251–300	291	201-300	311	325
University of Manitoba	351–400	601-650	301-400	308	390
Queen’s University	251–300	246	201-300	381	419
University of Saskatchewan	401–500	465	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) 2020	QS World University Rankings 2020
Harvard University	1	1	3	1	3
Stanford University	2	3	2	2	2
University of Oxford	6	5	1	9	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7	2	5	4	1
University of California – Berkeley	16	4	7	5	30
University of Cambridge	11	9	6	3	7
University of California – Los Angeles	12	13	15	13	36
Columbia University	13	6	17	7	19
Johns Hopkins University	4	10	12	15	25
University of Chicago	24	15	10	10	9
Yale University	19	11	8	11	17
University of Washington – Seattle	8	8	29	16	72
California Institute of Technology	65	7	4	8	4
University of Pennsylvania	10	14	13	19	16
Imperial College London	14	20	11	25	8
University College London	5	19	16	16	10
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor	9	17	22	22	21
University of Toronto	3	17	18	23	25
Cornell University	28	22	19	12	18
Duke University	20	23	20	27	42
University of California – San Diego	18	21	33	18	54
Princeton University	86	11	9	6	12
Northwestern University	27	24	24	30	29
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)	21	26	14	20	6
University of British Columbia	33	31	34	38	45

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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 November 30, 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”.