The University of Toronto managed to move up one spot to 20th place, while the University of British Columbia and McGill University each moved down one spot, to 31st to 35th, respectively.
And the Université de Montréal, which celebrated big gains last year when it jumped 20 spots to 84, plummeted back down to 106 this year.
As several Asian countries are nipping at Canada’s heels, Phil Baty, editor of THE rankings, says our country’s general rankings picture is “gloomy.”
He says Canada is being hurt by its insistence on maintaining an egalitarian funding formula, and should follow the lead of a growing number of countries in boosting the funding of select research universities to make them more competitive.
“There is a legitimacy to that argument because money isn’t infinite,” Baty said in an interview from Singapore. “One thing that keeps coming up is how other countries, like China and Germany, are making a clear choice to choose a smaller number of universities to be funded as global competitors.”
The California Institute of Technology was still No. 1 overall in the ranking, followed by Harvard University, the University of Oxford, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Globally, the U.S. still dominates, with 77 schools in the top 200 (compared with seven for Canada, 31 for Britain, 10 for Germany, seven for Australia, eight for France and 12 for the Netherlands).
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Adapted from : Vancouver Sun
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