McGill University is the only Quebec institution to rank among the 100 best institutions of higher education in the world, according to the Shanghai ranking, published Monday. For the 20e consecutive year, Harvard University snatched the top spot.
Posted at 3:37 p.m.
This annual ranking has been carried out since 2003 by the independent firm Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. It takes into account six criteria, including the number of Nobel and Fields medals (considered the Nobel of mathematics) among graduate students and professors, the number of most cited researchers in their discipline or the number of publications in journals Science and Nature.
McGill University arrives at 73e rank. Four other Canadian universities are in the top 100 places of the 2022 ranking. These are the University of Toronto (22e rank), the University of British Columbia (44e rank), McMaster University (90e rank) and the University of Alberta (92e rank).
However, it is the American universities that dominate this ranking: eight of them are among the top ten. The other two are British.
Enthroned in first place, Harvard is once again ahead of its compatriot Stanford. Another American university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), took third place on the podium, relegating Britain’s Cambridge to fourth.
Also in the ranking are the University of Montreal (101-150), the University of Ottawa (201-300), Laval University (301-400), Concordia University and the University of Sherbrooke (501- 600), as well as the University of Quebec in Montreal (701-800).
This year, more than 2,500 properties worldwide were reviewed to establish a top 1,000 ranking.
With Agence France-Presse