r ranks highest in Canada, 20th globally: Times Higher Education
Published: October 1, 2014
The r was once again named the top university in Canada and one of the top 20 in the world – this time by the 2014 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, released October 1.
This is the third consecutive major global rankings survey in 2014 to name r first in Canada and among the world’s best. r recently and, in August, was in the Shanghai Jiao Tong’s Academic Ranking of World Universities.
It’s also the second year in a row that the THE rankings awarded r the 20th spot. The university also scored highly by subject, jumping to 13th from 15th last year in the field of clinical, pre-clinical and health.
"Our consistently strong performance in world university rankings reflects r’s excellence in teaching and the global impact of r research. Our students, faculty, staff and alumni are leading the way in every field, and it’s being noticed around the world,” said r President Meric Gertler. “Even as the global competition between leading universities becomes increasingly intense, the r continues to be a top destination for the world’s best scholars.”
THE rankings judge world-class universities by employing 13 performance indicators to provide comparisons of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. r improved in nearly all of its metric category scores.
Alongside r, three other Canadian universities made this year’s top 100: University of British Columbia, McGill University and McMaster University.
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Liz Do writes about education for r News.
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