
Associate Professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization in the Faculty of Mathematics, Karen Yeats work on various problems on a board in the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) building at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario on Friday, October 13, 2017. (Photograph by Hannah Yoon) Photograph by Hannah Yoon
Best mathematics universities in Canada: 2018 rankings
Here are the 20 best universities for mathematics in Canada for 2018

Program Rankings math - 2018
| School | Rank last year | Program reputation | Research reputation | Fractional publications | Fractional citations | Field Weighted citation impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Toronto | [1] | *1 | *1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 2. UBC | [2] | 3 | 3 | 3 | *2 | 3 |
| 3. Waterloo | [3] | *1 | *1 | 1 | *2 | *8 |
| 4. McGill | [4] | 4 | 5 | *4 | *5 | 6 |
| 5. Alberta | [5] | 5 | 4 | *4 | *5 | 13 |
| 6. Montréal | [6] | *9 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| 7. McMaster | [8] | 8 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 1 |
| *8. Simon Fraser | [9] | *6 | *8 | *9 | 10 | *20 |
| *8. Victoria | [7] | 23 | *21 | 14 | 8 | 5 |
| *10. Carleton | N/A | *16 | 14 | *9 | 12 | 14 |
| *10. Laval | [*13] | *12 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| *12. UQAM | [11] | *14 | 13 | 21 | 18 | *8 |
| *12. Western | [*18] | *9 | 11 | 13 | *13 | *23 |
| *14. Ottawa | [15] | *14 | *16 | 7 | 9 | *20 |
| *14. Queen's | [*16] | *6 | 6 | 18 | *21 | *25 |
| 16. Manitoba | N/A | 22 | *16 | *15 | *13 | 12 |
| 17. York | [20] | *16 | 12 | *15 | 16 | *18 |
| *18. Calgary | N/A | 11 | 19 | 8 | 11 | *30 |
| *18. Dalhousie | [*16] | *12 | *8 | *19 | *21 | 17 |
| 20. Regina | [10] | *25 | *27 | 24 | 23 | 7 |
*Indicates a tie
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