University of Toronto ranked best in Canada, 23rd globally

August 19, 2020

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University of Toronto ranking number one in Canada and 23rd globally

The Canadian Bazaar

TORONTO: The University of Toronto (U of T) has once again been rated as Canada’s best university and 23rd globally.

As per the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Harvard University remains the world’s top university, topping the list for the 18th year.

Stanford University in California and Cambridge in Britain have been ranked number two and three.

MIT, UC Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, California Institute of Technology, Oxford, Chicago, Yale and Cornell are among the top 12 universities in the world.

Among the top-50, 34 are American universities, five British, two Canadian, two French, two Chinese, and one each from Japan, Australia, Denmark, and Sweden.

The ranking looks at more than 2,000 universities and ranks them on the basis of academic prowess, research impact and the quality of its faculty.

The University of Toronto ranking spot is 23. It also ranks seventh among North American public universities and 12th among public universities globally.

The University of British Columbia in Vancouver is ranked 38 globally.

U of T vice-president and provost Cheryl Regehr said, “We are delighted to be ranked the top Canadian university and one of the top 25 universities in the world by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, recognized for its rigour and detail in assessing the research and academic qualities of post-secondary institutions.

“These results reflect the University of Toronto’s position as a world-leading public research university that boasts top-notch faculty and produces exceptional graduates across a wide range of disciplines.”

There were 61,690 students enrolled at the University of Toronto in 2019.

TOP 50 Universities in ARWU 2020

Rank 2020	Rank 2019	Institution	Country
1	1	Harvard University	USA
2	2	Stanford University	USA
3	3	University of Cambridge	UK
4	4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
5	5	University of California, Berkeley	USA
6	6	Princeton University	USA
7	8	Columbia University	USA
8	9	California Institute of Technology	USA
9	7	University of Oxford	UK
10	10	University of Chicago	USA
11	11	Yale University	USA
12	13	Cornell University	USA
13	11	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
14		Paris-Saclay University	France
15	16	Johns Hopkins University	USA
16	15	University College London	UK
16	14	University of Washington	USA
18	18	University of California, San Diego	USA
19	17	University of Pennsylvania	USA
20	19	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
21	20	University of California, San Francisco	USA
22	20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	USA
23	24	University of Toronto	Canada
23	22	Washington University in St. Louis	USA
25	23	Imperial College London	UK
26	25	The University of Tokyo	Japan
27	28	Duke University	USA
27	30	New York University	USA
29	43	Tsinghua University	China
30	29	Northwestern University	USA
30	33	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA
32	27	University of Wisconsin – Madison	USA
33	26	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
34	32	Kyoto University	Japan
35	41	The University of Melbourne	Australia
36		PSL University	France
36	33	The University of Manchester	UK
38	35	University of British Columbia	Canada
39	44	Sorbonne University	France
40	41	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	USA
41	45	The University of Texas at Austin	USA
42	31	The University of Edinburgh	UK
43	35	Rockefeller University	USA
44	38	University of Colorado at Boulder	USA
45	38	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
45	38	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA
47	51	King’s College London	UK
48	49	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	USA
49	53	Peking University	China
49	48	University of California, Santa Barbara	USA