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U of T, UBC, McGill Named Best Canadian Universities

  • First Posted: Oct 06 2011 15:18 PM

And Lakehead gets snubbed AGAIN.

Nine Canadian universities made the Times Higher Education list of the world's top 200 post-secondary institutions, with the University of Toronto placing the highest at No. 19. The University of British Columbia came in at 22nd, McGill nabbed the 28th spot, McMaster University took 65th and the University of Alberta landed at 100. The Universite de Montreal (104), Queen's University (173), the University of Victoria (177) and the University of Ottawa (185) rounded out the rest of the Canadian entrants. American schools took four of the top five spots, with the California Institute of Technology being named the best university on the planet, Harvard University taking second spot, Stanford at third, and Princeton at fifth. Oxford University was named the fourth-best school on the list.

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