2020 University rankings

Canada’s best university nursing programs: 2020 rankings

The 20 top-ranking Canadian schools for nursing programs

By Maclean's October 3, 2019

School of nursing student at UBC (Paul Joseph/University of British Columbia)

Rank	School	Rank last year	Program reputation	Research reputation	Fractional publications	Fractional citations	Field weighted citation impact
1	Toronto	[1]	1	1*	1	1	9
2	Alberta	[2]	2*	1*	2	2	10
3	UBC	[3]	2*	3	3	3	7
4	McMaster	[*4]	4	4	10	7	3
5	Calgary	[6]	6	8	7	5	4
6	McGill	[*4]	5	5	4	4	12
7	Dalhousie	[9]	7	6	12	12*	6
8	Western	[7]	8*	9	8	8	5
9	Ottawa	[10]	8*	7	6	6	8
10	Queen's	[8]	11	10*	13	12*	1
11	York	[*12]	15	18	19	17*	2
12	Memorial	[15]	12	15	16	14	11
13	Montréal	[*12]	14	10*	5	10	15
14	Manitoba	[11]	17*	12	9	9	14
15	Laval	[*12]	17*	16	11	11	13
16	Victoria	[18]	10	14	17	17*	19
17	Ryerson	[17]	13	13	18	19	18
18	Sherbrooke	[19]	16	17	15	16	17
19	Saskatchewan	[16]	19	19	14	15	16

Note: Only 19 universities are ranked here as other universities with nursing programs did not produce a minimum of 100 papers over the past five years. This minimum threshold is required as smaller numbers can skew results on the field-weighted citation impact measure.

* Indicates a tie

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