Canada’s Best Universities 2024: Average Entering Grade
This measure tracks incoming first-year students' average high school grades
These numbers show the average final-year grades of full-time, first-year students entering university from high school or Quebec's CEGEP system. Grades shown are for students entering university from their home province in fall 2022. CEGEP grades are converted to percentage grades.
| University | Grade |
|---|---|
| Lethbridge | 82.5 |
| Laurentian | 83.7 |
| Ontario Tech | 84.0 |
| Bishop's | 84.5 |
| St. Thomas | 84.5 |
| Lakehead | 84.6 |
| York | 84.9 |
| Nipissing | 85.0 |
| UQAM | 85.0 |
| Brock | 85.1 |
| Trent | 85.2 |
| Windsor | 85.2 |
| Winnipeg | 85.3 |
| Wilfrid Laurier | 85.7 |
| Concordia | 86.2 |
| Mount Saint Vincent | 86.5 |
| Saint Mary's | 86.7 |
| Acadia | 86.8 |
| Regina | 86.8 |
| Carleton | 87.2 |
| Laval | 87.6 |
| Brandon | 87.7 |
| Guelph | 87.8 |
| UPEI | 87.8 |
| Sherbrooke | 87.9 |
| Moncton | 87.9 |
| St. Francis Xavier | 88.0 |
| Simon Fraser | 88.1 |
| Ottawa | 88.2 |
| New Brunswick | 88.3 |
| Toronto Metropolitan | 88.4 |
| Cape Breton | 88.5 |
| Mount Allison | 88.7 |
| UNBC | 88.8 |
| Alberta | 89.0 |
| Calgary | 89.0 |
| Memorial | 89.1 |
| Saskatchewan | 89.2 |
| Montréal | 89.5 |
| Dalhousie | 90.0 |
| Victoria | 90.6 |
| Western | 91.1 |
| Toronto * | 91.6 |
| Queen's | 91.8 |
| McMaster | 91.9 |
| McGill | 92.0 |
| Waterloo | 92.1 |
| Manitoba | 92.9 |
* Figure is for fall 2021.
Algoma and UBC did not provide figures.