Four Canadian schools on list of world’s best
Judged only on reputation, Canada has captured four spots in the new Times Higher Education ranking of the world's best.
The magazine on Wednesday released its first rankings based solely on reputation, as rated by of 13,388 academics in 131 countries. The ratings are broken out of its overall rankings list, released each fall.
"With this, we just took reputation," news editor John Gill told the Star. "It's interesting because the rankings change from our fall list."
The University of Toronto ranks as Canada's top university by reputation, at No. 17 on the list of the top-100. It's also No. 17 on the overall list.
Three other Canadian universities made the reputation top 100, compared with only two on the master list.
Â鶹AV ranked No. 29 worldwide for reputation, the University of British Columbia reached No. 31 and the University of Waterloo was 91st.
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