As a bilingual country, Canada provides great opportunities for international students and choosing to study in the best institutions in the country affords you the rare yet exclusive opportunity to learn from the best. Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings brings you one on one with the best universities in Canada.
Here’s a quick glance at the institutions best known for their prominence, reputation and high learning standards.
- University of Toronto
- University of British Columbia
- McGill University
- McMaster University
- University of Montreal
Fasten your seat belts as we take a jolly good ride to learn more about Canada’s finest institutions of learning.
1. The University of Toronto- UoT
UoT is a public research university which was founded in 1827 by royal charter. It has a longstanding reputation for innovation and research. It was also the birthplace of ground-breaking discoveries of insulin and stem cell research and the invention of the electron microscope. Undoubtedly, the university is one of the best in the world for medicine.
Other feathers on its cap include being Canada’s first academic publishing house, and the first forest science faculty in the country. It is also the first Canadian university to reach more than C$1 billion (£586 million) in endowment.
2. University of British Columbia- UBC
UBC was established in 1908 and is the oldest within the province. It creates learning opportunities that challenge its diverse students to excel and foster positive change throughout the world. Worthy of note is the fact that it houses the world’s largest cyclotron– a type of particle accelerator – in TRIUMF. This is the country’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.
3. McGill University
McGill University is the only Canadian institution represented in the World Economic Forum’s Global University Leaders Forum. It scores highly in world rankings for clinical subjects and is the most internationally diverse medical-doctoral university in Canada. Its groundbreaking achievements include the discovery that atoms can be divided, the first map of the brain’s motor cortex, and the invention of Plexiglas. It’s little wonder that it ranks 3rd of the best universities in Canada.
4. McMaster University
McMaster University is located in Milton, Ontario, Canada and has a proud tradition of academic and research excellence. The university places a strong emphasis on research seeking to meet some of the most urgent needs in society, particularly in health sciences. This includes research from the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute. Here, bits of human skin were turned into blood cells, which could help to alleviate the shortage of blood donors.
5. University of Montreal
Being the only francophone university among the top 5, the University of Montreal is a research university. In fact, it attracts over $500 million in research funding every year. It birthed many renown laboratories including MILA, the world’s leading university research centre in deep learning. There’s also the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), which is one of the most productive in its domain. And the Centre de recherche en Droit public (CRDP), the most comprehensive public-law research centre in Canada.
Voila! Choosing to study at any of the best universities in Canada is your license to learn from the best. Make that move now because procrastination is the thief of time.
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