UnivForum Rankings of Canadian Universities, 2007:

(Rank - Name of Univ - Number of threads mentioned)

 1. University of Toronto - 487
 2. McGill University - 418
 3. Queen's University - 415
 4. University of Waterloo - 226
 4. University of Western Ontario - 226
 6. York University - 209
 7. McMaster University - 206
 8. University of British Columbia (UBC) - 191
 9. Lakehead University - 179
10. University of Calgary - 152
11. University of Alberta - 137
12. University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) - 92
13. Universite de Montreal - 91
14. Nipissing University - 88
15. University of Guelph - 85
16. Ryerson University - 81
17. Concordia University - 66
18. Carleton University - 61
19. University of Ottawa - 60
20. Brock University - 48
21. Simon Fraser University - 46
22. Laurentian University - 36
22. University of Windsor 36
24. Dalhousie University - 33
24. Wilfrid Laurier University - 33
26. University of Victoria - 26

27. Trent University - 24
27. University of Saskatchewan 24
29. University of Manitoba - 22

30. University of Sherbrooke - 14
31. Acadia University - 12
32. St. Francis Xavier University - 11
33. Athabasca University - 10
33. University of Lethbridge - 10

35. University of Regina - 8

35. University of Winnipeg - 8
37. Brandon University - 7
37. Mount Allison University - 7

39. Memorial University of Newfoundland - 5

39. University of New Brunswick - 3

41. Bishop's University - 2

41. University of Moncton - 2

 

Note also that you should not base your university decision on these rankings.  If you are looking for an "academic" ranking of Canadian universities, see Macleans' rankings, THES rankings, Gourman Report Rankings, Princeton Review Rankings, etc. Also, you can ask on our student forums for more specific rankings such as MBA rankings, business school rankings, and law schools ranking, etc.

 

 

Canadian University Rankings Criteria:

The rankings are based solely on how many times the name of a Canadian university is mentioned on our forums.  Since top universities will tend to generate more discussions, they will usually rank higher.   On the other hand, many factors could possibly affect the results such as how big a university is, how many students a university happens to have on our forums, and so on.  Large universities will, in general, tend to have more students and thus generate more discussions.  And if there are a lot  of posters, on our forums, from, let's say, University A, then University A will happen to be mentioned more often, and thus rank higher. 

Note, once again, that the universities ranked here are the most commonly mentioned Canadian universities on our Canadian University Forums,  and not necessarily the best.  Note also that even though this is not an academic ranking, it still gives an estimate of how popular a university is since there will usually be more discussions about popular universities.  Also, if you are looking for more specific rankings such as "Ontario university rankings," "Quebec university rankings," "Alberta university Rankings," etc., or even more specifically, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, etc. universities rankings, you could form those based on our rankings list.  For degree related rankings, such as rankings of law schools, computer science schools, and business universities, or even like undergraduate versus graduate school rankings, see our student forums.

You can think of these rankings like the Webometrics rankings which rank (world) universities based on their Internet existence/popularity. Univforum rankings, on the other hand, do the same solely based on universities' existence/popularity on Univforum.com forums.

These rankings were made on June 1st, 2007. The next rankings will be made in 2008.  However, at any time, one can get a rough estimate of how the rankings will be by using the "search" function on the forum, thereby checking in how many threads a university is mentioned.  When doing this, take into account universities' different names. read more