Canada's Best Universities by Student Awards: Rankings 2023
Maclean's tracks student success at winning national awards
These figures show the five-year tally (2017-21) of the number of students, per 1,000, who have won national academic awards.
Medical Doctoral
University | Rank | No. of Awards |
---|---|---|
McGill | 1 | 6.4 |
UBC | 2 | 4.9 |
Toronto | 2 | 4.9 |
Dalhousie | 4 | 3.5 |
Ottawa | 5 | 3.4 |
Queen's | 6 | 3.1 |
Alberta | 7 | 2.8 |
Western | 7 | 2.8 |
Calgary | 9 | 2.6 |
McMaster | 9 | 2.6 |
Montréal | 11 | 2.4 |
Laval | 12 | 2.3 |
Sherbrooke | 13 | 1.8 |
Manitoba | 14 | 1.7 |
Saskatchewan | 15 | 1.5 |
* Indicates a tie
Comprehensive
University | Rank | No. of Awards |
---|---|---|
Simon Fraser | 1 | 4.1 |
Victoria | 2 | 3.3 |
Waterloo | 3 | 3.0 |
Carleton | 4 | 2.5 |
UQAM | 5 | 2.3 |
New Brunswick | 6 | 2.1 |
Concordia | 7 | 2.0 |
Memorial | 7 | 2.0 |
York | 9 | 1.9 |
Guelph | 10 | 1.8 |
Wilfrid Laurier | 11 | 1.1 |
Windsor | 11 | 1.1 |
Brock | 13 | 0.9 |
Toronto Metropolitan | 14 | 0.7 |
Regina | 15 | 0.5 |
* Indicates a tie
Primarily Undergraduate
University | Rank | No. of Awards |
---|---|---|
Saint Mary's | 1 | 1.3 |
Mount Allison | 2 | 1.1 |
UNBC | 3 | 1.0 |
UPEI | 4 | 0.9 |
St. Francis Xavier | 4 | 0.9 |
Acadia | 6 | 0.7 |
Bishop's | 6 | 0.7 |
Lethbridge | 6 | 0.7 |
Moncton | 6 | 0.7 |
Trent | 6 | 0.7 |
Lakehead | 11 | 0.6 |
Laurentian | 12 | 0.5 |
Ontario Tech | 13 | 0.4 |
Mount Saint Vincent | 14 | 0.3 |
Nipissing | 15 | 0.2 |
Brandon | 16 | 0.1 |
St. Thomas | 16 | 0.1 |
Winnipeg | 16 | 0.1 |
Cape Breton | 19 | none |
* Indicates a tie