The University of Toronto has yet again placed highly on a ranking that measures higher education institutions around the globe, coming right after such renowned Ivy League schools as Princeton and Columbia.
The QS World University Rankings for 2025, just released Wednesday, assessed nearly 2,000 schools across 100 countries, comparing what each offers based on factors like breadth and depth of research, general academic reputation, and a special “h-index,” which quantifies a school’s productivity and impact based on how often work that comes out of it is cited by peers.
Each institution was rated in each of 46 subject areas based on these benchmarks.
While the predictable cream of the crop dominated the best spots on the lists — with Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the like regularly comprising the first few spots across fields — U of T fared surprisingly well next to these prestigious names.
The institution was graded best for its Life Sciences & Medicine department, placing 13th in the world, with an overall score of 87.2 out of a potential 100. Its all-important h-index factor was pegged at 88, better than multiple schools above it.
U of T also boasts an excellent Psychology program, as well as Arts and Humanities, placing 13th and 14th in these areas, respectively, with scores of 86.5 and 86.3. It achieved the same latter score in Social Sciences and Management (named 14th-best) and Social Policy and Administration (ranking 18th), and an even better 86.6 in Medicine (14th-best, again).
It was also recognized in other crucial disciplines, like Computer Science and Information Systems (12th, but with a lower total score than the above mentioned subjects), Social Sciences and Management (14th), Engineering and Technology (17th), Accounting and Finance (17th), and Life Sciences (20th).
U of T also regularly had an employability factor in the 80s across faculties.
Researchers noted that though the school did not crack the top 20 in areas like Arts and Design — not all that surprising — or Business Management Studies — perhaps somewhat surprising — it was in the top 50 schools in all 46 study areas examined.
