Schools in Hamilton, Oshawa, drop in annual global university rankings
Published October 9, 2024 at 9:14 am
McMaster University in Hamilton fell out of the top 100 and Oshawa’s Ontario Tech dropped a couple of hundred spots in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which ranks more than 2,000 schools from 115 countries around the globe.
Ranked at #85 in the world and fourth in Canada last year, McMaster slipped to #116 (and in a tie with the University of Alberta) this year in the comprehensive rankings that look at five key areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry engagement and international outlook.
Ontario Tech, which was founded in Oshawa just two decades ago, fell to the 801-1,000 range from last year’s spot in the 601-800 range.
University of Toronto, which has a campus in Mississauga, was once again the top ranked university in Canada but it also lost some ground in the rankings, dropping from #18 in the world last year to #21 this year.
Oxford held on to the top spot for the ninth consecutive year, bolstered by significant improvements in industry engagement and teaching. Massachusetts Institution of Technology rose to second place, overtaking Stanford, which dropped to sixth.
China edged closer to the top 10, further boosting its global research influence while three new countries joined the top 200 – Brazil, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – highlighting the rise of emerging markets in higher education
The analysis also showed that the reputations of British and American schools – despite claiming the top ten positions this year – is declining.
A Times Higher Education survey released in June on how universities tackle UN Sustainable Development Goals such as poverty and hunger, gender equality, responsible consumption and production and climate action was kinder to Canadian schools, with six Canadian universities in the top 30 include the University of Victoria (13), Simon Fraser University (13), Université Laval (19), Western (21), Université de Montréal (28) and McMaster (30).
Ontario Tech did score high in rankings unveiled in May looking at the best young universities, placing 144th in the world and second in Canada.
Ontario Tech University in Oshawa